“When teaching in church seek to call forth not plaudits but groans. Let the tears of…”
When teaching in church seek to call forth not plaudits but groans. Let the tears of your hearers be your glory.
Jerome · Letters · NPNF2 VI, Letters, Letter LII, 8
Also to Nepotian, and a rule against the applause that Greek and Latin congregations gave a good sermon. Chrysostom fought the same habit at Antioch and lost.
How this is known
These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
Read in Fremantle, Lewis & Martley, NPNF series 2 vol. 6 (1893) · W. H. Fremantle, M.A., with G. Lewis and W. G. Martley
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