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Cease parading the words of others in triumph, and, like the jackdaw, adorning yourselves with feathers not your own. If each city should take away from you its own peculiar idiom, your sophistries would lose their power. Seeking who God is, you are ignorant of the things within yourselves; and gaping up at the heaven, you fall down into pits. The arrangements of your books are like labyrinths, and those who read them are like the jar of the Danaids. Why do you divide time for me, saying that one part of it is past, another present, another future? For how can the future come to pass, if the present exists? And just as those sailing, when the ship is being carried along, suppose through ignorance that the mountains are running, so also you do not perceive that you yourselves are running past, while the age stands still, until the one who made it should will it to exist. For why am I accused when I state my own teachings, while you are eager to overthrow all that is mine? Have you not come into being in the same manner as we, partaking of the same management of the world? Why do you assert that wisdom is among you alone, having no other sun, nor visitations of stars more distinguished, nor a more excellent genesis, nor a death surpassing that of other men? The grammarians have been to you the beginning of foolishness, and you who parcel out wisdom have been cut off from wisdom according to the truth, and you have assigned the names of its parts to men; and you are ignorant of God, but, making war on yourselves, you destroy one another. And on this account you all amount to nothing—appropriating words, but conversing like the blind with the deaf. Why do you hold carpenter's tools while not knowing how to do carpentry? Why do you take up arguments, while standing far off from deeds—puffed up through reputation, but humbled in misfortunes? Contrary to reason you misuse figures of speech; for in public you go in procession, but you hide your arguments in the corners. Having recognized you to be such, we have left you, and we no longer touch your things, but follow the Logos of God. For why, O man, do you fit out war among the letters? Why do you, as in a boxing-match, clash their pronunciations through Athenian lispings, when you ought to speak more naturally? For if you Atticize while not being an Athenian, tell me the reason for your not speaking Doric. How is it that one thing seems to you more barbarous, while another is more pleasing for conversation?