this has been broken up into shorter sentences for ease of understanding in modern English versions. Again, in a normal sentence we have the basic word order “subject—verb—object.” Here the writer has placed the object first for emphasis and keeps us waiting for the subject and verb (which formed one word in Greek). To make matters still worse, the object consists of a string of parallel relative clauses—and it is expanded by a parenthesis (v. 2)2 which describes one of the elements in the object