The series of articles on this blog about “konek-konek” arose from a question regarding how certain pastors/popular preachers relate one passage of the Scriptures with another one. This phenomenon has its “Catholic” origins from the Fathers of the Church who sought to explain Scriptures using Scriptures. I have written an article about this with regards to Augustine of Hippo and Guy the Carthusian entitled “Parallel Texts, Textual Resonances and the Liturgy”. My point in that article is that through the free association of ideas, one can — like Guy the Carthusian — link scripture passages with similar ones, and that these “links” are created through the combination of biblical texts heard in the liturgy, especially at Mass and the liturgy of the hours. One can also consciously create those “links” when one — like a St. Augustine — makes a concordantic study of the scriptures and associates one text with another by way of comparison and contrast. Not all can be Augustine however; he had a prodigious memory that allowed him to quote lists of passages even at a time when the Scriptures had no chapters and verses yet!

Sourced from: The Mystical Geek