I've often wondered why Strunk wrote:
"Omit needless words! Omit needless words! Omit needless words!"
when it should have been:
"Omit needless words!"
Must be Strunk had a sense of humor.
I guess I just had to spell it out, for I was under a spell of sorts, one of contemplation, due much to dennisw's #40, then your #53, but both of these in relation to scripture, which itself needs be devoured in entirety, much as the first passover lamb (or good goat, if one hadn't a perfect enough lamb).
We (so many of us) still don't get it. ah, well, as long as we're walking away from egypt, some of us may yet make it to the Promised land.
There's more to this contemplation, about what sacrifice was eventually substituted, or should I say employed, as it was even in so many ways foretold, but that's enough, for now.