good, should not despise any of those three objects, either to
CHAP. XVIL] the THEEE STYLES OF SPEECH. 145 authority. Let no man despise thee. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers," ^ and so on. Wliat then are we to think ? Does the apostle in any way contradict himself, when, though he says that men are made teachers by the operation of the Holy Spirit, he yet himself gives them directions how and what they should teach ? Or are we to understand, that though the duty of men to teach even the teachers does not cease when the Holy Spirit is given, yet that neither is he who planteth anything, nor he who watereth, but God who giveth the increase ? ^ Wherefore though holy men be our helpers, or even holy angels assist us, no one learns aright the things that pertain to life with God, until God makes him ready to learn from Himself, that God who is thus
'' Teach me to do Thy will ; for Thou addressed in the psalm : art my God."^ And so the same apostle says to Timothy himself, speaking, of course, as teacher to disciple : " But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowincj of whom thou hast learned them."* For as the medicines which men apply to the bodies of their fellowmen are of no avail except God gives them virtue (who can heal without their aid, though they cannot without His), and yet they are applied ; and if it be done from a sense of duty, it is esteemed a work of mercy or benevolence ; so the aids of teaching, applied through the instrumentality of man, are of advantage to the soul only when God w^orks to make them of advantage, who could give the gospel to man even without the help or agency of men.
Chap, xyii,— Threefold division of the various styles of speech.
34. He then who, in speaking, aims at enforcing what is good, should not despise any of those three objects, either to teach, or to give pleasure, or to move, and should pray and strive, as we have said above, to be heard with intelligence, with pleasure, and with ready compliance. And when he does this with elegance and propriety, he may justly be called eloquent, even though he do not carry with him the assent of his hearer. For it is these three ends, viz. teaching, giving pleasure, and moving, that the great master of Eoman eloquence
1 Tit. ii. 15, iii. 1. ^ i Cor. iii. 7. 3 pg, cxliii. 10. -» o Tim. iii. H.
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