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Charges, pp. 273, 274. Augustine continually reverts to this subject. He did not scruple to say—‘Melius est, ut nos reprehendant grammatici, quam ut non intelligant populi.’ In Ps. 139.15. Thus in one of his sermons to the same purport—‘Rogo humiliter, ut contentae sint eruditae aures vestrae verba rustica aequanimiter sustinere, dummodo totus grex Domini simplici, et, ut ita dicam, pedestri sermone, pabulum spirituale possit accipere; et quia imperiti et simplices ad scholasticorum altitudinem non possunt ascendere, eruditi se dignentur. ad illorum ignorantiam se inclinare.’ Quesnel remarks—‘That a man need not fear stooping too low, when he considers himself as the dispenser of the mysteries of abased wisdom. The gospel is more for the poor and simple than for refined wits; yet a minister of the Gospel is sometimes (one may say) afraid of being understood by the simple, lest he not be admired by the learned.’ On Mark 4.33. ‘Do not affect fine words, but words which the Holy Ghost teaches. Enticing words of man’s wisdom debase your matter. Gold does not need to be painted. Scripture expressions are what people are used to, and will remember.’ William’s Life of M. Henry, p. 162.