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Aposiopesis (/ ˌ æ p ə s aɪ. ə ˈ p iː s ɪ s /; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") is a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue. [1]
Now I make known to you, brothers and sisters, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, in which you also stand, by which you also are saved, if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I handed down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins ...
unless: A decree nisi is a court order (often for divorce) that will come into force on a certain date "unless" cause is shown why it should not. nisi Dominus frustra: if not the Lord, [it is] in vain: That is, "everything is in vain without God".
The phrase is based on a sentence of Augustine of Hippo (crede ut intellegas, [4] lit. "believe so that you may understand") [5] [2] to relate faith and reason. Augustine understood the saying to mean that a person must believe in something in order to know anything about God. [6] This sentence by Augustine is also inspired from Isaiah 7:9. [7]
This passage concerning the function of faith in relation to the covenant of God is often used as a definition of faith. Υποστασις (hy-po'sta-sis), translated "assurance" here, commonly appears in ancient papyrus business documents, conveying the idea that a covenant is an exchange of assurances which guarantees the future transfer of possessions described in the contract.
Fides quaerens intellectum, means "faith seeking understanding" or "faith seeking intelligence", is a Latin sentence by Anselm of Canterbury.. Anselm uses this expression for the first time in his Proslogion (I).
Psalm 127: Free scores at the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki) Text of Psalm 127 according to the 1928 Psalter; Psalms Chapter 127 text in Hebrew and English, mechon-mamre.org; Unless the LORD build the house, they labor in vain who build. text and footnotes, usccb.org United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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