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501   4,   7 |            eloquence his attendant; he follows the first, the second
502   4,   7 |         second follows him, and yet he does not spurn it when it
503   4,   7 |           after him. "I say again," he says, "Let no man think
504   4,   7 |             stripes save one." Then he returns to sections, and
505   4,   7 |          the churches." And to this he adds two clauses in a tone
506   4,   7 |            when after this outburst he rests himself, and gives
507   4,   7 |             a slight narrative. For he goes on to say: "The God
508   4,   7 |           that I lie not." And then he tells, very briefly the
509   4,   7 |             very briefly the danger he had been in, and the way
510   4,   7 |            had been in, and the way he escaped it. ~
511   4,   7 |            the Apostle Paul because he is our great orator. For
512   4,   7 |          our great orator. For when he says, "Though I be rude
513   4,   7 |              yet not in knowledge," he seems to speak as if granting
514   4,   7 |              not as confessing that he recognized its truth. If
515   4,   7 |            recognized its truth. If he had said, "I am indeed rude
516   4,   7 |            another meaning upon it. He did not hesitate plainly
517   4,   7 |       knowledge, because without it he could not have been the
518   4,   7 |          that prophet who says that he was a shepherd or herdsman,
519   4,   7 |       neglectful of brotherly love, he called aloud, saying: "Woe
520   4,   7 |        house of Israel!" Next, that he may use the favours of God,
521   4,   7 |               Pass ye unto Calneh," he says, "and see, and from
522   4,   7 |            of two members each. For he does not say: "Ye who are
523   4,   7 |         calves out of the herd." If he had so expressed it, this
524   4,   7 |   discretion of the speaker whether he finish each clause separately
525   4,   7 |          six altogether, or whether he suspend his voice at the
526   4,   7 |                                Next he reproaches them with their
527   4,   7 |             hearing. And here, when he had said, "Ye who chant
528   4,   7 |          may practice music wisely, he, with wonderful skill of
529   4,   7 |            music of the voluptuary, he does not say, "Ye who chant
530   4,   7 |           of music like David;" but he first addresses to themselves
531   4,   7 |            then, turning to others, he intimates that these men
532   4,   7 |           in regard to the injuries he suffered and the good return
533   4,   7 |        suffered and the good return he made. And, indeed, I do
534   4,   8 |     clearness of speech that either he will be very dull who does
535   4,  10 |          ossum" instead of "os", if he fear that the latter might
536   4,  10 |            for whose sake we speak? He, therefore, who teaches
537   4,  10 |              and if instead of them he can find words which are
538   4,  10 |         once pure and intelligible, he will take these by preference;
539   4,  10 |            preference; if, however, he cannot, either because there
540   4,  10 |           at the time occur to him, he will use words that are
541   4,  10 |           ask a question about what he does not understand; and
542   4,  10 |           has ascertained that what he says is understood, he ought
543   4,  10 |         what he says is understood, he ought either to bring his
544   4,  10 |             man gives pleasure when he throws light upon points
545   4,  10 |        people wish for instruction, he becomes wearisome when he
546   4,  10 |           he becomes wearisome when he dwells at length upon things
547   4,  10 |             of indifference whether he who speaks be a speaker
548   4,  10 |            forgotten anything, when he is reminded of it he is
549   4,  10 |           when he is reminded of it he is taught. But I am not
550   4,  10 |             that which secures that he who hears shall hear the
551   4,  10 |            the truth, and that what he hears he shall understand.
552   4,  10 |              and that what he hears he shall understand. And when
553   4,  12 |              and to persuade." Then he adds: "To teach is a necessity,
554   4,  12 |           two on the way we say it. He, then, who speaks with the
555   4,  12 |             should not suppose that he has said what he has to
556   4,  12 |       suppose that he has said what he has to say as long as he
557   4,  12 |            he has to say as long as he is not understood; for although
558   4,  12 |       understood; for although what he has said be intelligible
559   4,  12 |         understand it. If, however, he is understood, he has said
560   4,  12 |          however, he is understood, he has said his say, whatever
561   4,  12 |         manner of saying it. But if he wishes to delight or persuade
562   4,  12 |        persuade his hearer as well, he will not accomplish that
563   4,  12 |            secure his attention, so he must be persuaded in order
564   4,  12 |          move him to action. And as he is pleased if you speak
565   4,  12 |          sweetness and elegance, so he is persuaded if he be drawn
566   4,  12 |     elegance, so he is persuaded if he be drawn by your promises,
567   4,  12 |            awed by your threats; If he reject what you condemn,
568   4,  12 |        embrace what you commend; if he grieve when you heap up
569   4,  12 |           out an object for joy; if he pity those whom you present
570   4,  13 |           does it profit a man that he both confesses the truth
571   4,  13 |           praises the eloquence, if he does not yield his consent,
572   4,  13 |           careful attention to what he says? If the truths taught
573   4,  13 |         eloquent divine, then, when he is urging a practical truth,
574   4,  13 |          keep up the attention, but he must also sway the mind
575   4,  14 |           without great difficulty. He says, then, in one place, "
576   4,  14 |            holy man shows both that he can speak in that style.
577   4,  14 |            speak in that style. for he has done so once, and that
578   4,  14 |          has done so once, and that he does not choose, for he
579   4,  14 |             he does not choose, for he never uses it again. ~
580   4,  15 |             Christian orator, while he says what is just, and holy,
581   4,  15 |             and holy, and good (and he ought never to say anything
582   4,  15 |            anything else), does all he can to be heard with intelligence,
583   4,  15 |             and with obedience; and he need not doubt that if he
584   4,  15 |           he need not doubt that if he succeed in this object,
585   4,  15 |          this object, and so far as he succeeds, he will succeed
586   4,  15 |          and so far as he succeeds, he will succeed more by piety
587   4,  15 |            gifts of oratory; and so he ought to pray for himself,
588   4,  15 |          for himself, and for those he is about to address, before
589   4,  15 |            about to address, before he attempts to speak. And when
590   4,  15 |          when the hour is come that he must speak, he ought, before
591   4,  15 |            come that he must speak, he ought, before he opens his
592   4,  15 |             speak, he ought, before he opens his mouth, to lift
593   4,  15 |            to God, to drink in what he is about to pour forth,
594   4,  15 |            himself filled with what he is about to distribute.
595   4,  15 |          speeches are? Accordingly, he who is anxious both to know
596   4,  16 |         Spirit makes them teachers, he may as well say that we
597   4,  16 |           hast heard of me?" And is he not there told: "Study to
598   4,  16 |          the Epistle to Titus, does he not say that a bishop ought
599   4,  16 |           fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he
600   4,  16 |            he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine
601   4,  16 |            gainsayers?" There, too, he says: "But speak thou the
602   4,  16 |    contradict himself, when, though he says that men are made teachers
603   4,  16 |       operation of the Holy Spirit, he yet himself gives them directions
604   4,  16 |          given, yet that neither is he who planteth anything, nor
605   4,  16 |          who planteth anything, nor he who watereth, but God who
606   4,  17 |                                     He then who, in speaking, aims
607   4,  17 |          ready compliance. And when he does this with elegance
608   4,  17 |             elegance and propriety, he may justly be called eloquent,
609   4,  17 |        called eloquent, even though he do not carry with him the
610   4,  17 |        directions should subserve: "He, then, shall be eloquent,
611   4,  17 |            a majestic style:" as if he had taken in also the three
612   4,  17 |        whole in one sentence thus: "He, then, shall be eloquent,
613   4,  18 |          regard to legal questions: he could not, however, have
614   4,  18 |           money, as our Lord says: "He that is faithful in that
615   4,  18 |             but matters of money?), he says: "Dare any of you,
616   4,  18 |           is so indignant, and that he thus accuses, and upbraids,
617   4,  18 |            Why is it, in fine, that he speaks in a tone so exalted
618   4,  18 |             saying of our Lord that he who gives a cup of cold
619   4,  18 |            this saying as his text, he should think his subject
620   4,  19 |             speak of great matters, he ought not always to be speaking
621   4,  19 |          but in a subdued tone when he is teaching, temperately
622   4,  19 |          teaching, temperately when he is giving praise or blame.
623   4,  19 |          learnt about Him? Or ought he who is teaching the Trinity
624   4,  19 |            being instructed so that he may learn something? But
625   4,  19 |             in some measure! But if He be not worshipped, or if
626   4,  20 |             the Apostle Paul, where he says: "Tell me, ye that
627   4,  20 |          other by a free woman. But he who was of the bond woman
628   4,  20 |           born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by
629   4,  20 |           And in the same way where he reasons thus: "Brethren,
630   4,  20 |             were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds,
631   4,  20 |             then was the law given? he himself anticipates this
632   4,  20 |           an objection occurs which he himself has stated: "Is
633   4,  20 |       against the promises of God?" He answers: "God forbid." And
634   4,  20 |          answers: "God forbid." And he also states the reason in
635   4,  20 |        original question from which he set out. It is, however,
636   4,  20 |         wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching;
637   4,  20 |           teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation:
638   4,  20 |          exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do
639   4,  20 |          him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence;
640   4,  20 |             ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with
641   4,  20 |           the law of harmony (which he could very easily do by
642   4,  20 |           or by retaining the words he finds and altering their
643   4,  20 |        altering their arrangement), he will learn that these divinely-inspired
644   4,  20 |           any of those points which he has been taught in the schools
645   4,  20 |         consider of importance; and he will find in them many kinds
646   4,  20 |             rendering of the words, he has not preserved these
647   4,  20 |       adorned with gold and jewels, he works feats of valor with
648   4,  20 |    furnishes him with a weapon that he digs out of the ground.
649   4,  20 |          are not wanting: "Behold," he says, "now is the accepted
650   4,  20 |              writing to the Romans, he urges that the persecutions
651   4,  20 |             on the help of God. And he treats this subject with
652   4,  20 |        power and beauty: "We know," he says, "that all things work
653   4,  20 |            to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did
654   4,  20 |           For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to
655   4,  20 |          the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among
656   4,  20 |            brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He
657   4,  20 |           He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He
658   4,  20 |            He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified;
659   4,  20 |            and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom
660   4,  20 |            also justified; and whom He justified, them He also
661   4,  20 |             whom He justified, them He also glorified. What shall
662   4,  20 |              who can be against us? He that spared not His own
663   4,  20 |            up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely
664   4,  20 |             that justifieth; who is he that condemneth? It is Christ
665   4,  20 |            temperate eloquence, yet he interposes one passage of
666   4,  21 |            of the cup. In this book he resolves the question, whether
667   4,  21 |             customary introduction, he proceeds to the discussion
668   4,  21 |             in question. "Observe," he says, "that we are instructed,
669   4,  21 |           in the case of Noah, when he drank wine, and was drunken,
670   4,  21 |           forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most
671   4,  21 |           of the most high God. And he blessed Abraham.' Now, that
672   4,  21 |           style, because the object he has in view demands, not
673   4,  21 |             startled by the message he had heard from God, that,
674   4,  21 |          people from their enemies, he brought forth a kid of the
675   4,  21 |               And in the same style he pursues the subject, devoting
676   4,  21 |        epistle, "As we have borne," he says, "the image of the
677   4,  21 |           and ornamented style when he is holding up before virgins
678   4,  21 |             in that of another? For he loves another woman, thou
679   4,  21 |          man; and thou art angry if he love another, though he
680   4,  21 |             he love another, though he is taught adultery in thee.
681   4,  24 |        suppose on that account that he is speaking in the majestic
682   4,  24 |        every one killing whomsoever he could), I strove with all
683   4,  25 |        persuasively, whatever style he may adopt; but unless he
684   4,  25 |            he may adopt; but unless he succeeds in persuading,
685   4,  25 |           Now in the subdued style, he persuades his hearers that
686   4,  25 |     persuades his hearers that what he says is true; in the majestic
687   4,  25 |              in the majestic style, he persuades them to do what
688   4,  25 |             in the temperate style, he persuades them that his
689   4,  26 |            subdued style, what does he wish but to be believed?
690   4,  26 |           who will listen to him if he do not arrest attention
691   4,  26 |             beauty of style? And if he be not intelligible, is
692   4,  26 |  intelligible, is it not plain that he can neither give pleasure
693   4,  26 |         teacher speaker ought, when he uses the subdued style,
694   4,  26 |            is always necessary when he admits that what you say
695   4,  26 |             But who can be moved if he does not understand what
696   4,  26 |          who will stay to listen if he receives no pleasure? Wherefore,
697   4,  27 |           though, as it is written, he "is unprofitable to himself."
698   4,  27 |     immediately the course by which he would avoid contempt: "but
699   4,  28 |         against contempt. For while he pursues an upright life,
700   4,  28 |            pursues an upright life, he takes care to maintain a
701   4,  28 |             In his very speech even he prefers to please by matter
702   4,  28 |            same effect also is what he says to Timothy: "Charging
703   4,  28 |          where, then, would be what he says when he is describing
704   4,  28 |          would be what he says when he is describing the sort of
705   4,  28 |           bishop ought to be: "that he may be able by sound doctrine
706   4,  28 |         strive about words, whether he speak quietly, temperately,
707   4,  29 |                        If, however, he cannot do even this, let
708   4,  29 |        another. For the good things he says seem to be the result
709   4,  29 |           of such men, in one place He says, "Whatsoever they bid
710   4,  29 |         place, upbraiding such men, He says, "O generation of vipers,
711   4,  30 |      deliver or read to the people, he ought to pray God to put
712   4,  30 |          mouth, how much more ought he to pray for the same blessing
713   4,  31 |             will not think it long. He who thinks it long, but
714   4,  31 |     contents, may read it in parts. He who does not care to be
715   4,  31 |          many), but the sort of man he ought to be who desires