Definitions
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- adj. Serving as an epexegesis or as epexegeses.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Subjoined by way of explanation; marking an explanatory addition, or used in additional explanation: as, an epexegetical phrase; the epexegetic infinitive; and is sometimes epexegetic.
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Examples
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Batiffol, Lepin — identify the Presbyters with Andrew, Peter etc., thus making them Apostles, for they understand "what Andrew and Peter and the rest said" as epexegetic of "the words of the Presbyters".
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In Mark 10: 6 the most likely use of the genitive is the genitive of apposition (or epexegetic genitive), such as the phrase "the temple of his body" (John 2: 21) .6 The second word refers to the same object as the first word, only identifying it with a different noun.
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