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Mk 13:8e ... "these things are a beginning of birth pangs."

The 5th phrase has these 3 dialog words, ... archē ōdinōn tauta ("these things of birth pangs a beginning").

The 3 dialog words are bottom up. The word "odinon" means "the pain of childbirth or extreme anguish." The sign of the abstract noun "childbirth pain" is a dark triangle. The apex of that triangle is "a beginning." The 3 words are exactly tangent to "these things." Using the bottom of the graph as the starting point matched the imagery of these words. The woman's "extreme anguish" would soon come as she entered labor.

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