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He who distinguishes within himself between the utterance, the things signified, and the realities according to which the things signified are established, will not stumble over the solecism of the utterances, whenever, upon investigation, he finds that the realities according to which the utterances are set down are sound — and especially whenever the holy men themselves confess that their word and their proclamation consist not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. [Then, having spoken of the evangelist's solecism, he adds:]
Since the apostles are not without understanding of the points at which they stumble, and are not ashamed concerning the matters in question, they say that they are 'unskilled in speech, but not in knowledge.' For it must be supposed that this is said not only by Paul, but that it could also be said by the rest of the apostles. And we too understand it in light of the words: 'But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing greatness of the power may be God's, and not something we have taken from ourselves' — the 'treasure' being what is elsewhere called the treasure of knowledge and of hidden wisdom, and the 'earthen vessels' being the cheap and, among the Greeks, contemptible diction of the Scriptures, while truly the surpassing greatness of the power of God is manifested in that the mysteries of the truth prevailed, and the power of what is said, not being hindered by the cheap style of expression, reached to the ends of the earth and brought under the word of Christ not only the foolish of the world, but sometimes even its wise. For we see the calling: not that no one is wise according to the flesh, but that not many are wise according to the flesh. And Paul, moreover, proclaiming the gospel, is a debtor — not only to hand over the word to barbarians, but also to Greeks; and not only to the foolish, who assent more readily, but also to the wise. For he had been made sufficient by God to be a minister of the new covenant, employing demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that the assent of believers might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. For perhaps, if the Scripture possessed beauty and adornment of expression like the things admired among the Greeks, one might have suspected that it was not the truth that had mastered men, but that the apparent coherence and the beauty of the expression had beguiled the hearers, and that they had been deceived and led to accept it.