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Lowth described synthetic parallelism as “sometimes subtle and obscure” (Lectures II.52). The similarity in synthetic parallelism is identified in form rather than in content. Gray observed that synthetic parallelism had come to be a third category to hold everything that did not fit within synonymous or antithetic parallelism. The third category was necessary to Lowth’s division, however, as some couplets do not fit easily into the first two categories. In some cases, the synthetic relationship can be described as an intensification of the first statement. For example:

• Psa 100:3—Know that the Lord is God. / It is he that made us, and we are his; / we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

• Prov 15:3—The eyes of the Lord are in every place, / keeping watch on the evil and the good.

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