1. Paul Gaechter, Die literarische Kunst im Matthäus-Evangelium (Stuttgart: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1965), p. 6.

2. Robert Lowth, De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum Praelectiones Academicae, translated by G. Gregory (Andover, Mass., 1829).

3. John Jebb, Sacred Literature (London, 1820).

4. John Forbes, The Symmetrical Structure of Scripture (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1854).

5. T. H. Horne, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, 3 vols., 11th edition (London, 1860).

6. Nils Lund, Chiasmus in the New Testament (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1942), pp. 40–41.

7. Many chiasms have not survived the King James translation although they may be crystal-clear in the Hebrew. These examples are often verbatim translations from the Hebrew or Greek.

8. The first edition of the Book of Mormon was printed in standard paragraph form without verses. Arbitrary chapter divisions appear in the 1830 edition (1 Nephi with seven, 2 Nephi with fifteen, etc.). The current chapter divisions and versification were made by Orson Pratt in 1879. Therefore, there is no need to take chapter and verse into account when studying a passage’s structure. In fact, many chiasms which are difficult to spot on the columned pages of the modern editions are obvious on the regular pages of the first edition.

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