Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 93:5

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 595, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

In Every Style the Orator Should Aim at Perspicuity, Beauty, and Persuasiveness. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2008 (In-Text, Margin)

... style, ought constantly to aim at, and as far as possible to display, all these three merits. For we do not like even what we say in the subdued style to pall upon the hearer; and therefore we would be listened to, not with intelligence merely, but with pleasure as well. Again, why do we enforce what we teach by divine testimony, except that we wish to carry the hearer with us, that is, to com pel his assent by calling in the assistance of Him of whom it is said, “Thy testimonies are very sure”?[Psalms 93:5] And when any one narrates a story, even in the subdued style, what does he wish but to be believed? But who will listen to him if he do not arrest attention by some beauty of style? And if he be not intelligible, is it not plain that he can neither ...