ellauri067.html on line 304: Preterition is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony. The device is also called apophasis, paraleipsis, occupatio, not to mention parasiopesis.
ellauri067.html on line 307: William develops heretical religious ideas, and he writes "a long tract about it ... called On Preterition." In some Protestant doctrines, Christians are divided into "the elect," those chosen by God, and "the preterite," those not chosen, passed over by God. William champions the preterite, and he argues Judas is the savior of the preterite. The narrator then wonders if William´s ideas were "the fork in the road America never took."
ellauri074.html on line 112: Preterition taisi tulla jossakin jo esille, se kalvinistien kekka että osa jengistä on jo etukäteen markkeerattu eliitixi ja loput menee kadotuxeen muitta mutkitta. Ne on näitä ohitettuja. Jehova tekee oharit. Joo tää tuli esiin jo Nipsun yhteydessä. Sama pelko näyttää vaivanneen Walluakin.
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