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    "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
    "technical_name": "Erotesis / Interrogating",
    "alternate_names": "Erotesis; Interrogation",
    "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
    "reader_category": "Argumentation",
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    "simple_definition": "A rhetorical question is a question asked to make a point rather than to get information.",
    "technical_definition": "A figure of argumentation in which a speaker or writer uses a question instead of a direct assertion, rebuke, vindication, or appeal, often without waiting for an answer.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 3:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Where are you?",
      "explanation": "God's question exposes Adam's fallen condition rather than seeking unknown information.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Gen. 4:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Where is Abel your brother?",
      "explanation": "The question confronts Cain and exposes guilt.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Job 38:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?",
      "explanation": "The question humbles Job by contrasting human limitation with divine wisdom.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Ps. 8:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "What is man that you are mindful of him?",
      "explanation": "The question magnifies divine grace toward frail humanity.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Isa. 5:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "What more was there to do for my vineyard?",
      "explanation": "The question vindicates God's justice against Israel's unfruitfulness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
      "source_section": "Bullinger PDF pp. 913-914; web lines 27316-27345.",
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      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Isa. 40:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Who has measured the waters...?",
      "explanation": "The questions exalt God's incomparability and sovereignty.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
      "source_section": "Bullinger PDF pp. 913-914; web lines 27316-27345.",
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      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Mic. 6:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "O my people, what have I done to you?",
      "explanation": "The covenant lawsuit uses questions to expose Israel's ingratitude.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Matt. 7:16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Do people gather grapes from thornbushes?",
      "explanation": "The question teaches discernment by an obvious implied answer.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
      "source_section": "Bullinger PDF pp. 913-914; web lines 27316-27345.",
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      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Matt. 16:26",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "What will it profit a man...?",
      "explanation": "The question forces the hearer to weigh the soul against the whole world.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Matt. 22:42",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "What do you think about the Christ?",
      "explanation": "Jesus' question draws out messianic reasoning and exposes inadequate assumptions.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
      "source_section": "Bullinger PDF pp. 913-914; web lines 27316-27345.",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Luke 6:46",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and not do what I tell you?",
      "explanation": "The question rebukes profession without obedience.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
      "source_section": "Bullinger PDF pp. 913-914; web lines 27316-27345.",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Rom. 6:1-2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Shall we continue in sin?",
      "explanation": "Paul uses a question and emphatic rejection to refute antinomian inference.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
      "source_section": "Bullinger PDF pp. 913-914; web lines 27316-27345.",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0145",
      "figure_name": "Rhetorical Question",
      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Rom. 8:31",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "If God is for us, who can be against us?",
      "explanation": "The question asserts the invincible security of God's saving purpose.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Bullinger PDF section seed + manual Scripture review",
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      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "1 Cor. 9:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Who serves as a soldier at his own expense?",
      "explanation": "Paul argues for ministerial support through common-sense questions.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "page_slug": "rhetorical-question",
      "reference": "Heb. 2:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?",
      "explanation": "The question warns by implying there is no escape from neglecting the gospel.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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