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St. Augustine
On Christian Doctrine
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BOOK IV.
chap. 8. The obscurity of the sacred writers, though compatible with eloquence, not to be imitated by Christian teachers
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chap
.
8
.
The
obscurity
of
the
sacred
writers
,
though
compatible
with
eloquence
,
not
to
be
imitated
by
Christian
teachers
But
although
I
take
some
examples
of
eloquence
from
those
writings
of
theirs
which
there
is
no
difficulty
in
understanding
,
we
are
not
by
any
means
to
suppose
that
it
is
our
duty
to
imitate
them
in
those
passages
where
,
with
a
view
to
exercise
and
train
the
minds
of
their
readers
,
and
to
break
in
upon
the
satiety
and
stimulate
the
zeal
of
those
who
are
willing
to
learn
,
and
with
a
view
also
to
throw
a
veil
over
the
minds
of
the
godless
either
that
they
may
be
converted
to
piety
or
shut
out
from
a
knowledge
of
the
mysteries
,
from
one
or
other
of
these
reasons
they
have
expressed
themselves
with
a
useful
and
wholesome
obscurity
.
They
have
indeed
expressed
themselves
in
such
a
way
that
those
who
in
after
ages
understood
and
explained
them
aright
have
in
the
Church
of
God
obtained
an
esteem
,
not
indeed
equal
to
that
with
which
they
are
themselves
regarded
,
but
coming
next
to
it
.
The
expositors
of
these
writers
,
then
,
ought
not
to
express
themselves
in
the
same
way
,
as
if
putting
forward
their
expositions
as
of
the
same
authority
;
but
they
ought
in
all
their
deliverances
to
make
it
their
first
and
chief
aim
to
be
understood
,
using
as
far
as
possible
such
clearness
of
speech
that
either
he
will
be
very
dull
who
does
not
understand
them
,
or
that
if
what
they
say
should
not
be
very
easily
or
quickly
understood
,
the
reason
will
lie
not
in
their
manner
of
expression
,
but
in
the
difficulty
and
subtilty
of
the
matter
they
are
trying
to
explain
.
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