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movement is seen as part and parcel ofJohn's chiastic parallelism, it ceases to be peculiar and becomes artistic; it ceases tobe confusing and serves to clarify; it ceases to be repetitious and becomes balancedand supportive.There may be no more effective way to promote an ongoing renewal in biblicalstudies today than to teach and encourage Christians to read the Scriptures accordingto the same principles by which they were composed.Finally, one may ask, why John intentionally arrange his composition accordingto the principles of parallelism? Some possible answers are: (1) in order that the workmight be the more easily memorized; (2) in order that corresponding parts might helpto interpret one another; (3) in order to give to his grand theme a suitable artistic form.Introduction Page 29in the same way that Vergil chose dactylic hexameters for his theme; (4) in order topresent his work to the world in the same parallel literary pattern used so extensivelyin the Old Testament and other epic works of the Middle Eastern authors.CONCLUSIONWe conclude, therefore, that neither interpreters of the Fourth Gospel nortranslators should ignore the help given to them by an author when he choosesparallelism as his method of composition.After a close study of John's Gospel, the reader will be awe struck by his literarygenius. Rarely in Western literature has form been woven into content, pattern sewninto meaning, structure forged into theme with greater subtlety or success. The resultis a Gospel of profound paradox that first reveals then resolves itself in absolutesymmetry. To look closely at the major patterns of paradox is to discover how theliteral level of the Gospel fully engenders the meaning and how pattern finallyunravels predication.The Gospel of John is the most intricately composed, complex and relativelylong opus in the New Testament. The author did not mind, however, breaking hisGospel up into manageable pieces. Even in the central part...

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