Recapitulate

Please recapitulate your ideas.

Please recapitulate your idea.

Please recapitulate the most important points.

Let me recapitulate what was said.

I asked my colleague to recapitulate everything that was said in a few words.

The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.

We still have five minutes left, so let's recapitulate the lecture.

Being the Joshua/Atonement stanza of this cycle, the fact that the seven steps seem to recapitulate (or precapitulate?) the pattern of dominion is interesting. Situated at the very “gate” of Canaan, was this offer a temptation to be resisted like the plunder of Jericho (Joshua 6:18), or was it sin crouching at the door, the violence of Cain as “keeper” or shepherd over his brother (Genesis 4:7-8)? For Jacob, it was neither. He was waiting on God. For his sons, however, it was both. What Yahweh was offering freely they would take by force.

Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development.