Bible, (2. Cor. 2. 15.16): For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life.
(rhetoric) The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
[1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric,[…], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 83:
By Epanodos the same word moves its place, Takes first and last and also middle space.]
