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Such as the duties of husbands, Eph. 5.25; servants, 1Peter 2.18-25; the sin of evil speaking. Titus 3.2-6; matters of Ecclesiastical discipline, 1Cor. 5.1. The impetuosity of feeling in the sacred writers was so skilfully controlled, that their transitions are equally unexpected, natural, and graceful. ‘Let the serious Christian observe the exquisite skill, which here and everywhere conducts the zeal of our inspired writer. The odes of Pindar are celebrated for their fine transitions, which, though bold and surprising, are perfectly natural. We have in this place (1Cor. 5.7.) a very masterly stroke of the same beautiful kind. The Apostle, speaking of the incestuous Corinthian, passes, by a most artful digression, to his darling topic—a crucified Saviour. Who would have expected it on such an occasion? Yet, when thus admitted, who does not see and admire both the propriety of the subject, and the delicacy of its introduction?’ Hervey’s Theron and Aspasio, Dialogue III.