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The '''chiastic literary structure of the [[Johannine Comma]]''' is a commonly overlooked one — ''Comma Johanneum'' continued from the preceding v. 5:6 in the [[First Epistle of John]] forms a lexically naked chiasm:

The '''chiastic literary structure of the [[Johannine Comma]]''' is a commonly overlooked one — ''Comma Johanneum'' continued from the preceding v. 5:6 in the [[First Epistle of John]] forms a lexically naked pericopal chiasm reflecting the shape of the seven-branched Hebrew menorah:

:'''A''': "This is he that came by '''water and blood''', even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood." (6a)

:'''A''': "This is he that came by '''water and blood''', even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood." (6a)