The pattern of death, resurrection, ascension

OK, here’s a question for all the Bible scholars out there: First, look at this text preferably using the option of stripping out chapter and verse.

How would you describe the relationship between 1.19-23, 2.1-7, and 2.11-22?

We could say it simply describes teh death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ three times:

DRA 1
DRA 2
DRA 3

Or we could say the first is the description and the second two dependent interprestations like this:

1
1.1
1.2

But couldn’t we formulate it more specifically with the second giving equal time to Jew and Gentile, the last emphasizing Gentiles joining with Jews, and the first simply mentioning the Chuch without old covenant specificity?

DRA Xp/Church
DRA Xp/JG
DRA Xp/G

Just wondering out loud.

(Notice two how 4.7-12 elaborates on 2.20 in context.)

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