intonation unit

An oral component in writing, according to Nicholas Elder, where a segment of a few words communicate a "new idea” and that are identified by the parts of speech such as “coordinating conjunctions, prepositional phrases, apposition, direct discourse, [and] indirect discourse” that separate these units (123).

Henry Scadding:

Vertical Bar | before apposition

Hebrew-Revelations

Henry Scadding writes another sermon upon Revelations in the Hebrew text. As he writes, he uses a bar to segregate each idea or phrase. In particular, he finds himself putting these bars after terms that need to be explained to the congregation. His congregation is not as versed in religious literature but there are also terms of his own, such as open proof, that he wants to clarify with a familiar noun. These separations help him deliver the sermon in a deliberate and didactic manner.

Joseph Thompson:

But intonation units and coordinating conjunctions

Joseph Thompson Sermon

Joseph Thompson wrote his sermons like he would preach, frequently employing conjunctions, and using them to continue the sentence onto a new idea but only because he would have to include all relevant factors. Thompson preaches about what being "born of water" includes but cannot leave out the subsequent idea that we are born of the spirit as well. And he writes like this because his speech is continuous and this trait translates into his writing upon God or reading of God's scriptures but he does employ punctuation so he can distinguish the segment on human relationship with God.