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3501 4, 7 | brethren, both in regard to the injuries he suffered and 3502 4, 7 | injuries he suffered and the good return he made. And, 3503 4, 7 | and how it comes home to the intelligent reader, it is 3504 4, 7 | other points bearing on the laws of eloquence could 3505 4, 7 | wisdom and eloquence from the divine mind; wisdom not 3506 4, 7 | have perceived and said, the rules which are laid down 3507 4, 7 | rules which are laid down in the art of oratory could not 3508 4, 7 | first had their birth in the genius of orators, is it 3509 4, 7 | they should be found in the messengers of Him who is 3510 4, 7 | messengers of Him who is the author of all genius? Therefore 3511 4, 7 | let us acknowledge that the canonical writers are not 3512 4, 8 | chap. 8. The obscurity of the sacred 3513 4, 8 | chap. 8. The obscurity of the sacred writers, though compatible 3514 4, 8 | view to exercise and train the minds of their readers, 3515 4, 8 | readers, and to break in upon the satiety and stimulate the 3516 4, 8 | the satiety and stimulate the zeal of those who are willing 3517 4, 8 | also to throw a veil over the minds of the godless either 3518 4, 8 | a veil over the minds of the godless either that they 3519 4, 8 | out from a knowledge of the mysteries, from one or other 3520 4, 8 | explained them aright have in the Church of God obtained an 3521 4, 8 | but coming next to it. The expositors of these writers, 3522 4, 8 | to express themselves in the same way, as if putting 3523 4, 8 | their expositions as of the same authority; but they 3524 4, 8 | easily or quickly understood, the reason will lie not in their 3525 4, 8 | manner of expression, but in the difficulty and subtilty 3526 4, 8 | difficulty and subtilty of the matter they are trying to 3527 4, 9 | with whatever eloquence the speaker may expound them; 3528 4, 9 | never be brought before the people at all, or only on 3529 4, 9 | we must not shrink from the duty of bringing the truth 3530 4, 9 | from the duty of bringing the truth which we ourselves 3531 4, 9 | ourselves have reached within the comprehension of others, 3532 4, 9 | and whatever labour in the way of argument it may cost 3533 4, 9 | earnest desire to learn the truth, and should have capacity 3534 4, 9 | it may be communicated, the teacher not being so anxious 3535 4, 9 | not being so anxious about the eloquence as about the clearness 3536 4, 9 | about the eloquence as about the clearness of his teaching. ~ 3537 4, 10 | chap. 10. The necessity for perspicuity 3538 4, 10 | sometimes leads to neglect of the more polished forms of speech, 3539 4, 10 | dearly expresses and conveys the meaning intended. Whence 3540 4, 10 | which when used according to the vulgar idiom is neither 3541 4, 10 | ambiguous nor obscure) not in the way the learned, but rather 3542 4, 10 | obscure) not in the way the learned, but rather in the 3543 4, 10 | the learned, but rather in the way the unlearned employ 3544 4, 10 | learned, but rather in the way the unlearned employ it. For 3545 4, 10 | that it was important for the sense to put a word here 3546 4, 10 | sense to put a word here in the plural which in Latin is 3547 4, 10 | in Latin is only used in the singular; why should a teacher 3548 4, 10 | of "os", if he fear that the latter might be taken not 3549 4, 10 | latter might be taken not as the singular of "ossa", but 3550 4, 10 | singular of "ossa", but as the singular of "ora", seeing 3551 4, 10 | have no quick perception of the shortness or length of vowels? 3552 4, 10 | lead to understanding in the hearer, seeing that there 3553 4, 10 | or because they do not at the time occur to him, he will 3554 4, 10 | not quite pure, if only the substance of his thought 3555 4, 10 | several, but much more in the case of a speech delivered 3556 4, 10 | conversation any one has the power of asking a question; 3557 4, 10 | understand; and on this account the speaker ought to be especially 3558 4, 10 | indication of this sort be given, the subject discussed ought 3559 4, 10 | memory. As soon, however, as the speaker has ascertained 3560 4, 10 | expectation was fixed on having the difficulties of the passage 3561 4, 10 | having the difficulties of the passage removed. For even 3562 4, 10 | well known are told for the sake of the pleasure they 3563 4, 10 | are told for the sake of the pleasure they give, if the 3564 4, 10 | the pleasure they give, if the attention be directed not 3565 4, 10 | attention be directed not to the things themselves, but to 3566 4, 10 | things themselves, but to the way in which they are told. 3567 4, 10 | are told. Nay, even when the style itself is already 3568 4, 10 | known, if it be pleasing to the hearers, it is almost a 3569 4, 10 | I am not now treating of the mode of giving pleasure. 3570 4, 10 | pleasure. I am speaking of the mode in which men who desire 3571 4, 10 | ought to be taught. And the best mode is that which 3572 4, 10 | he who hears shall hear the truth, and that what he 3573 4, 10 | labour need be spent on the truth itself, as if it required 3574 4, 10 | so as to bring it home to the heart. If it appear right 3575 4, 11 | chap. 11. The Christian teacher must speak 3576 4, 11 | without grace of style, the benefit does not extend 3577 4, 11 | benefit does not extend beyond the few eager students who are 3578 4, 11 | however rude and unpolished the form in which it is put, 3579 4, 11 | succeeded in their object, find the plain truth pleasant food 3580 4, 11 | enough. And it is one of the distinctive features of 3581 4, 11 | intellects not to love words, but the truth in words. For of what 3582 4, 11 | between learning and eating, the very food without which 3583 4, 11 | must be flavoured to meet the tastes of the majority. ~ 3584 4, 11 | flavoured to meet the tastes of the majority. ~ 3585 4, 12 | chap. 12. The aim of the orator, according 3586 4, 12 | chap. 12. The aim of the orator, according to Cicero, 3587 4, 12 | move. Of these, teaching is the most essential~ 3588 4, 12 | triumph." Now of these three, the one first mentioned, the 3589 4, 12 | the one first mentioned, the teaching, which is a matter 3590 4, 12 | depends on what we say; the other two on the way we 3591 4, 12 | we say; the other two on the way we say it. He, then, 3592 4, 12 | He, then, who speaks with the purpose of teaching should 3593 4, 12 | it is not said at all to the man who does not understand 3594 4, 12 | what, but for that purpose the style of speaking is a matter 3595 4, 12 | matter of importance. And as the hearer must be pleased in 3596 4, 12 | I need not go over all the other things that can be 3597 4, 12 | powerful eloquence to move the minds of the hearers, not 3598 4, 12 | eloquence to move the minds of the hearers, not telling them 3599 4, 12 | can be moved. And perhaps the mere knowledge of their 3600 4, 12 | what they do not know? On the same principle, to persuade 3601 4, 12 | for; as, for example, when the hearer yields his assent 3602 4, 12 | consent. And what will be the use of gaining the first 3603 4, 12 | will be the use of gaining the first two ends if we fail 3604 4, 12 | first two ends if we fail in the third? Neither is it a necessity 3605 4, 12 | give pleasure; for when, in the course of an address, the 3606 4, 12 | the course of an address, the truth is clearly pointed 3607 4, 12 | pointed out (and this is the true function of teaching), 3608 4, 12 | of teaching), it is not the fact, nor is it the intention, 3609 4, 12 | not the fact, nor is it the intention, that the style 3610 4, 12 | is it the intention, that the style of speech should make 3611 4, 12 | style of speech should make the truth pleasing, or that 3612 4, 12 | truth pleasing, or that the style should of itself give 3613 4, 12 | itself give pleasure; but the truth itself, when exhibited 3614 4, 12 | pleasure, because it is the truth. And hence even falsities 3615 4, 12 | true that they are false, the speech which shows this 3616 4, 13 | chap. 13. The hearer must be moved as 3617 4, 13 | But for the sake at those who are so 3618 4, 13 | truth unless it is put in the form of a pleasing discourse, 3619 4, 13 | assigned in eloquence to the art of pleasing. And yet 3620 4, 13 | understand and are pleased with the teacher's discourse, without 3621 4, 13 | man that he both confesses the truth and praises the eloquence, 3622 4, 13 | confesses the truth and praises the eloquence, if he does not 3623 4, 13 | consent, when it is only for the sake of securing his consent 3624 4, 13 | securing his consent that the speaker in urging the truth 3625 4, 13 | that the speaker in urging the truth gives careful attention 3626 4, 13 | attention to what he says? If the truths taught are such that 3627 4, 13 | are true. When, however, the truth taught is one that 3628 4, 13 | and that is taught for the very purpose of being practiced, 3629 4, 13 | useless to be persuaded of the truth of what is said, it 3630 4, 13 | useless to be pleased with the manner in which it is said, 3631 4, 13 | learnt as to be practiced. The eloquent divine, then, when 3632 4, 13 | please so as to keep up the attention, but he must also 3633 4, 13 | attention, but he must also sway the mind so as to subdue the 3634 4, 13 | the mind so as to subdue the will. For if a man be not 3635 4, 13 | if a man be not moved by the force of truth, though it 3636 4, 13 | remains but to subdue him by the power of eloquence. ~ 3637 4, 14 | diction to be in keeping with the matter~ 3638 4, 14 | has been spent by men on the beauty of expression here 3639 4, 14 | gaining assent, but merely for the sake of being read with 3640 4, 14 | avert from His Church what the prophet Jeremiah says of 3641 4, 14 | prophet Jeremiah says of the synagogue of the Jews: " 3642 4, 14 | says of the synagogue of the Jews: "A wonderful and horrible 3643 4, 14 | horrible thing is committed in the land: the prophets prophesy 3644 4, 14 | is committed in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, 3645 4, 14 | prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests applaud them with 3646 4, 14 | and what will ye do in the end thereof?" O eloquence, 3647 4, 14 | O eloquence, which is the more terrible from its purity, 3648 4, 14 | terrible from its purity, and the more crushing from its solidity! 3649 4, 14 | a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." For to 3650 4, 14 | this God Himself has by the same prophet compared His 3651 4, 14 | God forbid that with us the priest should applaud the 3652 4, 14 | the priest should applaud the false prophet, and that 3653 4, 14 | For what shall we do in the end thereof? And assuredly 3654 4, 14 | sort occurs in a letter of the blessed Cyprian, which, 3655 4, 14 | posterity might see how the wholesome discipline of 3656 4, 14 | Let us seek this abode: the neighbouring solitudes afford 3657 4, 14 | a retreat where, whilst the spreading shoots of the 3658 4, 14 | the spreading shoots of the vine trees, pendulous and 3659 4, 14 | intertwined, creep amongst the supporting reeds, the leafy 3660 4, 14 | amongst the supporting reeds, the leafy covering has made 3661 4, 14 | because they cannot attain the former, not because their 3662 4, 15 | chap. 15. The Christian teacher should 3663 4, 15 | attempts to speak. And when the hour is come that he must 3664 4, 15 | saying, except God who knows the hearts of all? And who can 3665 4, 15 | say what we ought, and in the way we ought, except Him 3666 4, 15 | suitable for a divine. But when the hour for speech arrives, 3667 4, 15 | Lord's, as better suited to the wants of a pious mind: " 3668 4, 15 | is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which 3669 4, 15 | which speaketh in you." The Holy Spirit, then, speaks 3670 4, 15 | s sake are delivered to the persecutors; why not also 3671 4, 16 | despised though God makes the true teacher~ 3672 4, 16 | they should teach, since the Holy Spirit makes them teachers, 3673 4, 16 | before ye ask Him;" or that the Apostle Paul should not 3674 4, 16 | to be constantly before the eyes of every one who has 3675 4, 16 | every one who has obtained the position of a teacher in 3676 4, 16 | position of a teacher in the Church. In the First Epistle 3677 4, 16 | teacher in the Church. In the First Epistle to Timothy 3678 4, 16 | father?" Is it not said in the Second Epistle: "Hold fast 3679 4, 16 | Second Epistle: "Hold fast the form of sound words,; which 3680 4, 16 | ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth?" And in the 3681 4, 16 | the word of truth?" And in the same place: "Preach the 3682 4, 16 | the same place: "Preach the word; be instant in season, 3683 4, 16 | and doctrine." And so in the Epistle to Titus, does he 3684 4, 16 | bishop ought to "hold fast the faithful word as he has 3685 4, 16 | to exhort and to convince the gainsayers?" There, too, 3686 4, 16 | he says: "But speak thou the things which become sound 3687 4, 16 | become sound doctrine: that the aged men be sober," and 3688 4, 16 | then are we to think? Does the apostle in any way contradict 3689 4, 16 | men are made teachers by the operation of the Holy Spirit, 3690 4, 16 | teachers by the operation of the Holy Spirit, he yet himself 3691 4, 16 | understand, that though the duty of men to teach even 3692 4, 16 | duty of men to teach even the teachers does not cease 3693 4, 16 | teachers does not cease when the Holy Spirit is given, yet 3694 4, 16 | watereth, but God who giveth the increase? Wherefore though 3695 4, 16 | us, no one learns aright the things that pertain to life 3696 4, 16 | who is thus addressed in the psalm: "Teach me to do Thy 3697 4, 16 | Thou art my God." And so the same apostle says to Timothy 3698 4, 16 | disciple: "But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned 3699 4, 16 | hast learned them." For as the medicines which men apply 3700 4, 16 | medicines which men apply to the bodies of their fellow-men 3701 4, 16 | mercy or benevolence; so the aids of teaching, applied 3702 4, 16 | teaching, applied through the instrumentality of man, 3703 4, 16 | man, are of advantage to the soul only when God works 3704 4, 16 | advantage, who could give the gospel to man even without 3705 4, 16 | gospel to man even without the help or agency of men. ~ 3706 4, 17 | 17. Threefold division of the various styles of speech~ 3707 4, 17 | he do not carry with him the assent of his hearer. For 3708 4, 17 | pleasure, and moving, that the great master of Roman eloquence 3709 4, 17 | seems to have intended that the following three directions 3710 4, 17 | if he had taken in also the three ends mentioned above, 3711 4, 17 | above, and had embraced the whole in one sentence thus: " 3712 4, 17 | style, in order to sway the mind." ~ 3713 4, 18 | chap. 18. The Christian orator is constantly 3714 4, 18 | Now the author I have quoted could 3715 4, 18 | ecclesiastical questions, the only ones that an address 3716 4, 18 | neither of these, and where the intention is not to get 3717 4, 18 | intention is not to get the hearer to do, or to pronounce 3718 4, 18 | were a middle place between the former two, and are on that 3719 4, 18 | abuse, not a proper use of the word moderate, to put it 3720 4, 18 | especially those addressed to the people from the place of 3721 4, 18 | addressed to the people from the place of authority, ought 3722 4, 18 | salvation, and where also the thing to be guarded against 3723 4, 18 | much so, that even what the preacher says about pecuniary 3724 4, 18 | to loss or gain, whether the amount be great or small, 3725 4, 18 | is least is great. For as the nature of the circle, viz., 3726 4, 18 | great. For as the nature of the circle, viz., that all lines 3727 4, 18 | that all lines drawn from the centre to the circumference 3728 4, 18 | drawn from the centre to the circumference are equal, 3729 4, 18 | circumference are equal, is the same in a great disk that 3730 4, 18 | great disk that it is in the smallest coin; so the greatness 3731 4, 18 | in the smallest coin; so the greatness of justice is 3732 4, 18 | degree lessened, though the matters to which justice 3733 4, 18 | And when the apostle spoke about trials 3734 4, 18 | another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the 3735 4, 18 | the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that 3736 4, 18 | saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? 3737 4, 18 | that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world 3738 4, 18 | judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by 3739 4, 18 | are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye 3740 4, 18 | who are least esteemed in the Church. I speak to your 3741 4, 18 | brother, and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore 3742 4, 18 | brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit 3743 4, 18 | unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?" Why is 3744 4, 18 | of God?" Why is it that the apostle is so indignant, 3745 4, 18 | threatens? Why is it that the changes in his tone, so 3746 4, 18 | and so abrupt, testify to the depth of his emotion? Why 3747 4, 18 | but all this is done for the sake of justice, charity, 3748 4, 18 | charity, and piety, which in the judgment of every sober 3749 4, 18 | when applied to matters the very least. ~ 3750 4, 18 | their connections, before the church courts, we would 3751 4, 18 | But we are treating of the manner of speech of the 3752 4, 18 | the manner of speech of the man who is to be a teacher 3753 4, 18 | who is to be a teacher of the truths which deliver us 3754 4, 18 | trifling and common thing, the saying of our Lord that 3755 4, 18 | humble style. Is it not the case that when we happen 3756 4, 18 | speak on this subject to the people, and the presence 3757 4, 18 | subject to the people, and the presence of God is with 3758 4, 18 | not altogether unworthy of the subject, a tongue of fire 3759 4, 18 | water which inflames even the cold hearts of men with 3760 4, 19 | chap. 19. The Christian teacher must use 3761 4, 19 | manner calculated to sway the mind. And sometimes the 3762 4, 19 | the mind. And sometimes the same important matter is 3763 4, 19 | a mind that is averse to the truth to turn and embrace 3764 4, 19 | ought he who is teaching the Trinity in unity to speak 3765 4, 19 | of it otherwise than in the method of calm discussion, 3766 4, 19 | instead of proofs? Or is the hearer to be moved to do 3767 4, 19 | who can task his powers to the utmost in praising Him whom 3768 4, 20 | chap. 20. Examples of the various styles drawn from 3769 4, 20 | definite. We have an example of the calm, subdued style in the 3770 4, 20 | the calm, subdued style in the Apostle Paul, where he says: " 3771 4, 20 | that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the 3772 4, 20 | the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, 3773 4, 20 | that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond maid, the 3774 4, 20 | the one by a bond maid, the other by a free woman. But 3775 4, 20 | woman. But he who was of the bond woman was born after 3776 4, 20 | bond woman was born after the flesh; but he of the free 3777 4, 20 | after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise. 3778 4, 20 | allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from 3779 4, 20 | these are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai, 3780 4, 20 | covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth 3781 4, 20 | above is free, which is the mother of us all;" and so 3782 4, 20 | all;" and so on. And in the same way where he reasons 3783 4, 20 | Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it 3784 4, 20 | Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith 3785 4, 20 | Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed 3786 4, 20 | before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred 3787 4, 20 | disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. 3788 4, 20 | promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, 3789 4, 20 | if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: 3790 4, 20 | might possibly occur to the hearer to ask, If there 3791 4, 20 | there is no inheritance by the law, why then was the law 3792 4, 20 | by the law, why then was the law given? he himself anticipates 3793 4, 20 | Wherefore then serveth the law?" And the answer is 3794 4, 20 | then serveth the law?" And the answer is given: "It was 3795 4, 20 | of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom 3796 4, 20 | seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it 3797 4, 20 | was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now 3798 4, 20 | himself has stated: "Is the law then against the promises 3799 4, 20 | Is the law then against the promises of God?" He answers: " 3800 4, 20 | forbid." And he also states the reason in these words: " 3801 4, 20 | righteousness should have been by the law. But the Scripture has 3802 4, 20 | have been by the law. But the Scripture has concluded 3803 4, 20 | concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus 3804 4, 20 | believe." It is part, then, of the duty of the teacher not 3805 4, 20 | part, then, of the duty of the teacher not only to interpret 3806 4, 20 | obscure, and to unravel the difficulties of questions, 3807 4, 20 | what we say. If, however, the solution of these questions 3808 4, 20 | suggest itself as soon as the questions themselves arise, 3809 4, 20 | all discussed and solved, the reasoning is extended to 3810 4, 20 | such a length, that unless the memory be exceedingly powerful 3811 4, 20 | exceedingly powerful and active, the reasoner finds it impossible 3812 4, 20 | impossible to return to the original question from which 3813 4, 20 | that whatever occurs to the mind as an objection that 3814 4, 20 | In the following words of the apostle 3815 4, 20 | In the following words of the apostle we have the temperate 3816 4, 20 | words of the apostle we have the temperate style: "Rebuke 3817 4, 20 | entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 3818 4, 20 | younger men as brethren; the elder women as mothers, 3819 4, 20 | elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters." And 3820 4, 20 | therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye 3821 4, 20 | reasonable service." And almost the whole of this hortatory 3822 4, 20 | hortatory passage is in the temperate style of eloquence; 3823 4, 20 | and those parts of it are the most beautiful in which, 3824 4, 20 | differing according to the grace that is given to us, 3825 4, 20 | us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or 3826 4, 20 | fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; 3827 4, 20 | prayer; distributing to the necessity of saints; given 3828 4, 20 | with them that weep. Be of the same mind one towards another." 3829 4, 20 | And a little farther on: "The night is far spent, the 3830 4, 20 | The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore 3831 4, 20 | let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let 3832 4, 20 | darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us 3833 4, 20 | us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and 3834 4, 20 | and envying: but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make 3835 4, 20 | and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts 3836 4, 20 | for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." Now if the 3837 4, 20 | the lusts thereof." Now if the passage were translated 3838 4, 20 | concupiscentiis feceritis", the ear would no doubt be gratified 3839 4, 20 | preferred to retain even the order of the words. And 3840 4, 20 | retain even the order of the words. And how this sounds 3841 4, 20 | And how this sounds in the Greek language, in which 3842 4, 20 | Greek language, in which the apostle spoke, those who 3843 4, 20 | been translated to us in the same order of words does 3844 4, 20 | very harmoniously even in the original tongue. ~ 3845 4, 20 | endings. Whether this be the fault of the translators, 3846 4, 20 | Whether this be the fault of the translators, or whether, 3847 4, 20 | more inclined to believe, the authors designedly avoided 3848 4, 20 | species of harmony would take the closing sentences of these 3849 4, 20 | arrange them according to the law of harmony (which he 3850 4, 20 | meaning, or by retaining the words he finds and altering 3851 4, 20 | which he has been taught in the schools of the grammarians 3852 4, 20 | taught in the schools of the grammarians and rhetoricians 3853 4, 20 | especially beautiful in the original, none of which 3854 4, 20 | harmony, we take away none of the weight from these divine 3855 4, 20 | from being deficient in the musical training from which 3856 4, 20 | learned man, describes even the metres employed by some 3857 4, 20 | employed by some of them, in the Hebrew language at least; 3858 4, 20 | an accurate rendering of the words, he has not preserved 3859 4, 20 | pleased to find them in the sacred authors very rarely. ~ 3860 4, 20 | The majestic style of speech 3861 4, 20 | style of speech differs from the temperate style just spoken 3862 4, 20 | uses, indeed, nearly all the ornaments that the other 3863 4, 20 | nearly all the ornaments that the other does; but if they 3864 4, 20 | by its own vehemence; and the force of the thought, not 3865 4, 20 | vehemence; and the force of the thought, not the desire 3866 4, 20 | force of the thought, not the desire for ornament, makes 3867 4, 20 | of feeling should suggest the fitting words; they need 3868 4, 20 | valor with those arms in the heat of battle, not because 3869 4, 20 | because they are arms; and yet the same man does great execution, 3870 4, 20 | weapon that he digs out of the ground. The apostle in the 3871 4, 20 | digs out of the ground. The apostle in the following 3872 4, 20 | the ground. The apostle in the following passage is urging 3873 4, 20 | passage is urging that, for the sake of the ministry of 3874 4, 20 | urging that, for the sake of the ministry of the gospel, 3875 4, 20 | sake of the ministry of the gospel, and sustained by 3876 4, 20 | gospel, and sustained by the consolations of God's grace, 3877 4, 20 | should bear with patience all the evils of this life. It is 3878 4, 20 | treated with power, and the ornaments of speech are 3879 4, 20 | Behold," he says, "now is the accepted time; behold, now 3880 4, 20 | accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. Giving 3881 4, 20 | offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed: 3882 4, 20 | things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much 3883 4, 20 | longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 3884 4, 20 | Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power 3885 4, 20 | by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour 3886 4, 20 | by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness 3887 4, 20 | armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 3888 4, 20 | on the right hand and on the left, by honour and dishonour, 3889 4, 20 | And in the same way, writing to the 3890 4, 20 | the same way, writing to the Romans, he urges that the 3891 4, 20 | the Romans, he urges that the persecutions of this world 3892 4, 20 | in assured reliance on the help of God. And he treats 3893 4, 20 | love God, to them who are the called according to His 3894 4, 20 | predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He 3895 4, 20 | His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 3896 4, 20 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It 3897 4, 20 | risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also 3898 4, 20 | Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, 3899 4, 20 | Thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted 3900 4, 20 | are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) Nay, in all 3901 4, 20 | able to separate us from the love of God, which is in 3902 4, 20 | Again, in writing to the Galatians, although the 3903 4, 20 | the Galatians, although the whole epistle is written 3904 4, 20 | whole epistle is written in the subdued style, except at 3905 4, 20 | subdued style, except at the end, where it rises into 3906 4, 20 | feeling that, not withstanding the absence of any ornaments 3907 4, 20 | ornaments such as appear in the passages just quoted, it 3908 4, 20 | how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel 3909 4, 20 | of the flesh, I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 3910 4, 20 | preached the gospel unto you at the first. And my temptation 3911 4, 20 | Christ Jesus. Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? 3912 4, 20 | enemy, because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect 3913 4, 20 | emotion that makes us feel the fervour of eloquence. ~ 3914 4, 21 | chap. 21. Examples of the various styles, drawn from 3915 4, 21 | various styles, drawn from the teachers of the church, 3916 4, 21 | drawn from the teachers of the church, especially Ambrose 3917 4, 21 | But these writings of the apostles, though clear, 3918 4, 21 | they are exemplified in the writings of men who, by 3919 4, 21 | writings of men who, by reading the Scriptures, have attained 3920 4, 21 | Scriptures, have attained to the knowledge of divine and 3921 4, 21 | and have ministered it to the Church. Cyprian of blessed 3922 4, 21 | blessed memory writes in the subdued style in his treatise 3923 4, 21 | style in his treatise on the sacrament of the cup. In 3924 4, 21 | treatise on the sacrament of the cup. In this book he resolves 3925 4, 21 | In this book he resolves the question, whether the cup 3926 4, 21 | resolves the question, whether the cup of the Lord ought to 3927 4, 21 | question, whether the cup of the Lord ought to contain water 3928 4, 21 | way of illustration. After the customary introduction, 3929 4, 21 | introduction, he proceeds to the discussion of the point 3930 4, 21 | proceeds to the discussion of the point in question. "Observe," 3931 4, 21 | instructed, in presenting the cup, to maintain the custom 3932 4, 21 | presenting the cup, to maintain the custom handed down to us 3933 4, 21 | custom handed down to us from the Lord, and to do nothing 3934 4, 21 | first done for us: so that the cup which is offered in 3935 4, 21 | For, as Christ says, 'I am the true vine,' it follows that 3936 4, 21 | true vine,' it follows that the blood of Christ is wine, 3937 4, 21 | is wine, not water; and the cup cannot appear to contain 3938 4, 21 | redeemed and quickened, if the wine be absent; for by the 3939 4, 21 | the wine be absent; for by the wine is the blood of Christ 3940 4, 21 | absent; for by the wine is the blood of Christ typified, 3941 4, 21 | foreshadowed and proclaimed in all the types and declarations of 3942 4, 21 | Scripture. For we find that in the book of Genesis this very 3943 4, 21 | circumstance in regard to the sacrament is foreshadowed, 3944 4, 21 | typically set forth, in the case of Noah, when he drank 3945 4, 21 | not necessary to mention the other circumstances in detail, 3946 4, 21 | that Noah, foreshadowing the future reality, drank, not 3947 4, 21 | forth our Lord's passion. In the same way we see the sacrament 3948 4, 21 | In the same way we see the sacrament of the Lord's 3949 4, 21 | we see the sacrament of the Lord's supper prefigured 3950 4, 21 | Lord's supper prefigured in the case of Melchizedek the 3951 4, 21 | the case of Melchizedek the priest, according to the 3952 4, 21 | the priest, according to the testimony of the Holy Scriptures, 3953 4, 21 | according to the testimony of the Holy Scriptures, where it 3954 4, 21 | bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high 3955 4, 21 | and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed 3956 4, 21 | Melchizedek was a type of Christ, the Holy Spirit declares in 3957 4, 21 | Holy Spirit declares in the Psalms, where the Father 3958 4, 21 | declares in the Psalms, where the Father addressing the Son 3959 4, 21 | where the Father addressing the Son says, 'Thou art a priest 3960 4, 21 | art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.'" 3961 4, 21 | this passage, and in all of the letter that follows, the 3962 4, 21 | the letter that follows, the subdued style is maintained, 3963 4, 21 | style is maintained, as the reader may easily satisfy 3964 4, 21 | of very great importance, the equality of the Holy Spirit 3965 4, 21 | importance, the equality of the Holy Spirit with the Father 3966 4, 21 | of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son, employs 3967 4, 21 | Spirit with the Father and the Son, employs the subdued 3968 4, 21 | Father and the Son, employs the subdued style, because the 3969 4, 21 | the subdued style, because the object he has in view demands, 3970 4, 21 | not beauty of diction, nor the swaying of the mind by the 3971 4, 21 | diction, nor the swaying of the mind by the stir of emotion, 3972 4, 21 | the swaying of the mind by the stir of emotion, but facts 3973 4, 21 | proofs. Accordingly, in the introduction to his work, 3974 4, 21 | introduction to his work, we find the following passage among 3975 4, 21 | When Gideon was startled by the message he had heard from 3976 4, 21 | that, though thousands of the people failed, yet through 3977 4, 21 | he brought forth a kid of the goats, and by direction 3978 4, 21 | goats, and by direction of the angel laid it with unleavened 3979 4, 21 | upon a rock, and poured the broth over it; and as soon 3980 4, 21 | over it; and as soon as the angel of God touched it 3981 4, 21 | angel of God touched it with the end of the staff that was 3982 4, 21 | touched it with the end of the staff that was in his hand, 3983 4, 21 | there rose up fire out of the rock and consumed the offering. 3984 4, 21 | of the rock and consumed the offering. Now this sign 3985 4, 21 | sign seems to indicate that the rock was a type of the body 3986 4, 21 | that the rock was a type of the body of Christ, for it is 3987 4, 21 | blood has ever satisfied the hearts of His thirsting 3988 4, 21 | declared in a mystery that the Lord Jesus, when crucified, 3989 4, 21 | should abolish in His flesh the sins of the whole world, 3990 4, 21 | in His flesh the sins of the whole world, and not their 3991 4, 21 | guilty acts merely, but the evil lusts of their hearts. 3992 4, 21 | lusts of their hearts. For the kid's flesh refers to the 3993 4, 21 | the kid's flesh refers to the guilt of the outward act, 3994 4, 21 | flesh refers to the guilt of the outward act, the broth to 3995 4, 21 | guilt of the outward act, the broth to the allurement 3996 4, 21 | outward act, the broth to the allurement of lust within, 3997 4, 21 | as it is written, 'And the mixed multitude that was 3998 4, 21 | them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also 3999 4, 21 | give us flesh to eat?' When the angel, then, stretched out 4000 4, 21 | out his staff and touched the rock, and fire rose out