refutes certain false apostles who had gone out from the
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tribulation, experience out of patience, and hope out of experience. Another ornament, too, is found here ; for after certain statements finished in a single tone of voice, which we call clauses and sections {membra ct cccsa), but the Greeks KOjXa and Koiifiara} there follows a rounded sentence (amhitus sive circuitus) which the Greeks call irepioho^;^ the clauses of which are suspended on the voice of the speaker till the whole is completed by the last clause. For of the statements which precede the period, this is the first clause, " knowing that tribulation worketh patience;" the second, "and patience, experience ;" the third, " and experience, hope." Then the period which is subjoined is completed in three clauses, of which the first is, " and hope maketh not ashamed ;" the second, " because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts ;" the third, "by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." But these and other matters of the same kind are tauglit in the art of elocution. As then I do not affirm that the apostle was guided by the rules of eloquence, so I do not deny that his wisdom naturally produced, and was accompanied by, eloquence.
12. In the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, again, he refutes certain false apostles who had gone out from the
Jews, and had been trying to injure his character ; and being compelled to speak of himself, though he ascribes this as folly to himself, how wisely and how eloquently he speaks But wisdom is his guide, eloquence his attendant ; he follows the first, the second follows him, and yet he does not spurn it when it comes after him. " I say again," he says, " Let no man think me a fool : if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. That which I speak, T speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a iiuiu smile you on the face. I speak as
Cf. Cicero, Orator. C2 : "Qua' noscio cur, cnm Grrcci xiuftx-ra, ct *Z>,x nominent, nos non recto iiuisa et membra dicamus."
Cicero, de Claris Oratoribus, 44 : •' Comprehensio et ambitus ille verbomin (si sic perioJum appellari placet);"