proteron

-- French Tr The old English translator has it: "And though this reason serve not; yet nevertheless the matter itself declareth, that there is in this history a Hysteron proteron, that is, a setting of the cart before the horse."

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

The transgression across the threshold is nothing else but this hysteron proteron, this "crazy" reversal of the order of time: what is 'later' (hysteron) in time (here the realization or finding of the Self) has to be proteron, 'earlier,' 'prior'; it has to be the precondition of a search for the Self.

Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

The Editors propose various corrections, e.g. {proteron apospenon panton, tote k.t.l.}, “which before were excluded from everything,” or {proteron apospenon, tote panton metadidous},

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

The reading {trito proteron etei} has been proposed.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

The death of Isaac is not related in its proper order, as will soon appear from the connection of the history: but, as we have elsewhere seen, the figure hysteron proteron was familiar to Moses.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

Hysteron proteron, are adduced in confirmation of this interpretation.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

But in this narrative there is a hysteron proteron, (a putting of the last first,) for Moses first relates the fact, and then subjoins that Jacob had attempted nothing but by the command of God.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

Some suppose that a hysteron proteron [316] is here employed, and that what Moses is afterwards about to relate concerning the building of the tower was prior in the order of time.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

But in the narration of Moses there is a hysteron proteron.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

They who, in this place, affirm that the figure hysteron proteron, which puts the last first, is used, are moved by the consideration, that if Joseph had been born after the last of his brethren, the age which Moses records in Genesis 41: 46, would not accord with the fact.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996