5:20 But if you38 have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you.…”39
tn The pronoun is emphatic—“but you, if you have gone astray.”
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tn This is an example of the rhetorical device known as aposiopesis, or “sudden silence.” The sentence is broken off due to the intensity or emphasis of the moment. The reader is left to conclude what the sentence would have said.