Not Sent to Dazzle

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“The cultivated rhetoric of Hellenistic society was notorious for grabbing center stage, as it were, and losing sight of the primary concern of the message. That this should not happen in Christian preaching was Paul’s main concern in the opening chapters of the first epistle to the Corinthians. In fact, the greatest of Christian preachers, whether Augustine in the dying gasp of Hellenistic civilization or the Puritans at the height of the baroque age in Europe, have often had to make this point” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scripture, pp. 190-191).

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