formulated as A (life), B (death) | B (death), A (life) and the two adjacent pairs are configured vertically as A B X B A we have an arrangement of the elements A and B which creates a visual image of the Greek letter X (chi). This figure was not only perceived as a cross, but was also the first letter of the word “Christ” in Greek (Χριστος). Rhetorical theory designates this figure variously as chiasmus, (ki-ás-mus) after the Greek letter chi, represented in Greek as X, and antimetabole (Greek “opposite-change”).
