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verse 32 a second jussive follows, likewise without Wāw, for he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgement). On the imperfect consecutive as expressing a logical consequence, see § 111 l; on the perfect consecutive as a consecutive clause after a participle, see § 112 n.

 [b]  2. Conjunctions introducing consecutive clauses are again (see § 157 c, note 3) כִּי and אֲשֶׁר=so that; especially again after interrogative sentences, according to § 107 u; cf. Nu 16, כִּי with the imperfect, that ye murmur; but in Gn 20 with the perfect, in reference to an action already completed. On אֲשֶׁר with the imperfect (or jussive) equivalent to so that, cf. further Gn 13, 22; with perfect and imperfect, 1 K 3, with the demonstrative force clearly discernible, depending on לֵב; on אֲשֶׁר לֹא=ut non, cf. Dt 28, 1 K 3, 2 K 9.

On מִן with a substantive or infinitive as the equivalent of a consecutive clause, see § 119 y.

§167. Aposiopesis, Anacoluthon, Involved Series of Sentences.

 [a]  1. Aposiopesis is the concealment or suppression of entire sentences or clauses, which are of themselves necessary to complete the sense,^[1] and therefore must be supplied from the context. This is especially frequent after conditional clauses; besides the examples already given in § 159 dd, cf. also Ex 32 (the LXX and Samaritan supply שָׂא); Nu 5, Ju 9 (in verse 19, after a long parenthesis, an imperative follows as the apodosis to this conditional clause); 1 S 12 f., 2 S 5 (where indeed the text is probably very corrupt; cf. the addition in 1 Ch 11); 2 S 23, ψ 27, 1 Ch 4. For other examples of various kinds, see § 117 l, and especially § 147; in Aramaic, Dn 3.—On Gn 3, cf. § 152 w at the end.

 [b]  2. Anacoluthon is the change from a construction which has been already begun to one of a different kind. It is found especially after long parentheses, because the speaker has either lost sight of the beginning of his sentence, or for the sake of clearness purposely makes a new beginning; thus Gn 20, 31 and Ez 34 (cf. § 149 at the end); Nu 14, 32, Dt 17, 24, 29, Ju 10 (where, after a series of intermediate sentences, the predicate I saved you is sup-

1. But those cases are not to be regarded as examples of aposiopesis, in which the answer, being closely connected with the question, is given simply in the infinitive with לְ; cf. § 147 a, note 1.