Here is an instance where the waw with a perfect merely expresses "a digression or an epexegesis," as. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
No one has put together, or, to adopt a more expressive phrase, heaped together such enormous paragraphs; no one has linked clause on clause, parenthesis on parenthesis, epexegesis on exegesis, in such a bewildering concatenation of inextricable entanglement. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
In epexegesis or on a point of order? —. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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