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The King’s Companion — Parataxis and the Architecture of Favor
אֹהֵ֥ב טהור־לֵ֑ב חֵ֥ן שְׂ֝פָתָ֗יו רֵעֵ֥הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ׃
(Proverbs 22:11)
He who loves purity of heart: grace is upon his lips; the king is his friend.
Opening the Alignment
In the terse elegance of Proverbs 22:11, we find a man who loves purity of heart and speaks graciously — and a king, drawn to him in quiet friendship. The verse flows without conjunctions, without causal markers, without explanations. It offers no verbs of result or reasoning. And in that silence lies its power.… Learn Hebrew
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