Sentences with phrase «main point of the passage»

A chiastic literary structure can be viewed as a sort of sandwich, with repetitive parallel elements at the beginning and end as the pieces of bread, similar repetitive elements within those, representing the condiments, and the meat — the main point of the passage — in the middle.

The main point of the passage of the resolution was to strongly iterate the fact that the leading professional association for teacher educators had no ability to see how the CAEP organization was to achieve its goal of a single, unified educator accreditation organization.

Not exact matches

We also know that anytime something is repeated twice or more times in a given passage of scripture, it is usually the emphasis or main point of the teaching.

Paul says it in Ephesians 2:8, and he also says it in Ephesians 2:5, and it is the central idea and the main point of the entire passage.

But a first - century Middle Eastern would not have read the opening and closing phrases of the passage as the main point.

Her main point seemed to be that regardless of our understanding of the differences between OT and NT, we all tend to over emphasize certain passages and under emphasize others.

At the same time, there are passages in the Gospels that can hardly have received their present form in Aramaic; their language, structure, ethos, theology, all seem to point to a purely Greek - speaking community for their main line of transmission and final formulation.

Fundamental skills required in efficient reading comprehension are knowing meaning of words, ability to understand meaning of a word from discourse context, ability to follow organization of passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, ability to draw inferences from a passage about its contents, ability to identify the main thought of a passage, ability to answer questions answered in a passage, ability to recognize the literary devices used in a passage and to determine its tone and mood, and finally ability to determine writer's purpose, intent, and point of view, and draw inferences about the writer.

Grim # 46 does get the main point I was trying to make in the passage cited, which I should remind people was written (a) for publication in a newspaper whose readership includes a large number of people who we've yet to convince and (b) was written in an attempt to engage with someone who was seeking to argue in terms of probabilities and was suggesting that a 30 % likelihood that AGW is happening or will happen is not really something to worry about.