We are as riddled with chiastic structures as the Word!
Just as it is easier to swallow bread with wine or some other beverage, so is it easier to make love of God and the neighbor (bread) part of oneself if instructed in the spiritual truth which teaches that love (wine). We learn truth about love rather earlier than we particularly practice that love, because our fallen natures, the old man, are reluctant to give way to the new creation in Christ, the new man. This is why light was created long before the Sun and Moon: because spiritual enlightenment precedes particularly noteworthy, actual expression of love and wisdom in a ripening believer's life. Gradually we go further and further within as though we were gradually removing layers from the rotten onion of self love. The person who ceases to boast on the outside may, as it were, still have to confront the 'big bosses' of ever more interior expressions of that particular sin. The person who boasts on the outside may, as it were, boast on the inside; and ever more inside. ...