![]() Those who prosper in what they desire in temporal matters and those who covet indeed the things that are of the world, and yet are wearied with the toils of adversity.Those who, though able to preach worthily, are afraid through excessive humility and those whom imperfection or age debars from preaching, and yet rashness impels to it.Those that understand not aright the words of sacred law and those who understand them indeed aright, but speak them without humility.Those that are at variance, and those that are at peace.Those who neither seize the things of others nor are bountiful with their own and those who both give away the things they have, and yet cease not to seize the things of others.Those who mercifully give of their own, and those who would fain seize what belongs to others.The too silent, and those who spend time in much speaking.Those who fear scourges, and therefore live innocently and those who have grown so hard in iniquity as not to be corrected even by scourges.What diversity there ought to be in the art of preaching.ĭifferently to be admonished are these that follow: Whence every teacher also, that he may edify all in the one virtue of charity, ought to touch the hearts of his hearers out of one doctrine, but not with one and the same exhortation. For what are the intent minds of hearers but, so to speak, a kind of tight tensions of strings in a harp, which the skilful player, that he may produce a tune not at variance with itself, strikes variously? And for this reason the strings render back a consonant modulation, that they are struck indeed with one quill, but not with one kind of stroke. Therefore according to the quality of the hearers ought the discourse of teachers to be fashioned, so as to suit all and each for their several needs, and yet never deviate from the art of common edification. ![]() For the things that profit some often hurt others seeing that also for the most part herbs which nourish some animals are fatal to others and the gentle hissing that quiets horses incites whelps and the medicine which abates one disease aggravates another and the bread which invigorates the life of the strong kills little children. ![]() For, as long before us Gregory Nazianzen of reverend memory has taught, one and the same exhortation does not suit all, inasmuch as neither are all bound together by similarity of character. Since, then, we have shown what manner of man the pastor ought to be, let us now set forth after what manner he should teach. How the Ruler, While Living Well, Ought to Teach and Admonish Those that are Put Under Him. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. ![]()
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