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Quotations vs Prooftext - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between quotations and prooftext

is that quotations is while prooftext is the practice of using decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.

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    • prooftext

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  • The practice of using decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.

    • References

    * Prooftext, Prooftexting, in ''Definition of Christian Terms