The vindication of an eloquence distinctly Christian has the more weight because its doctrine of form and substance echoes from Cicero the best ancient tradition. The older tradition had in Augustine’s time been so overlaid that he could do no better service to rhetoric than to recall it. In fact, Christian eloquence redeemed public speaking by reviving the true persuasion. The insistence on the Ciceronian doctrine that style is not separable has a bearing more than historical. Not only for Augustine’s time, but for any time, the truism must be reasserted. His iteration is more than preoccupation with Cicero, more than repudiation of sophistic. It springs from the cardinal importance of the truism for homiletic. In the pulpit the sophistic heresy of art for art’s sake becomes intolerable. Augustine’s next step (vii) is to support his general claims for Christian eloquence, and to show how it may be studied, by analyzing briefly three typical passages. In the first, _Romans_ v. 3-5, he analyzes prose rhythm under the familiar heads of classical sentence movement (_compositio_): phrases and subordinate clauses (_cæsa_), coordinate clauses (_membra_), period (_circuitus_), climax (_gradatio_), adding the equivalent Greek terms.[14] RHYTHMICAL ANALYSIS OF _ROMANS_ V. 3, 4, 5 (1) καυχώμεθα ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσιν, (1) Gloriamur in tribulationibus, (2) εἰδότες ὅτι ἡ θλῖψις ὑπομονὴν (2) scientes quod tribulatio κατεργάζεται, patientiam operatur, (3) ἡ δὲ ὑπομονὴ δοκιμήν, (3) patientiam autem probationem, (4) ἡ δὲ δοκιμὴ ἐλπίδα, (4) probatio vero spem, (5) ἡ δὲ ἐλπὶς οὐ καταισχύνει, (5) spes autem non confundit, (6) ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται (6) quia caritas Dei diffusa est ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν, in cordibus nostris, (7) διὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου τοῦ (7) per Spiritum sanctum qui datus δοθέντος ἡμῖν. est nobis. The passage is short enough, and the sentence movement simple enough, to be grasped readily. Its balance is striking without being monotonous, and is reinforced by a linking iteration that leads to a climax.[15] He is a wise teacher who begins with an instance so memorable. It must have seized even more quickly a generation familiar with both the terms and the method. The next example, _2 Corinthians_ xi. 16-31, shows the same sentence devices carried through a much longer reach, and is therefore used both to reinforce the first and to add the importance of rhythmical variety. The counsel of variety, though a commonplace of the older rhetoric, had especial point by contrast with the sophistic fondness for trimming and prolonging balances. Incidental to the exhibition of variety is a reminder of aptness; and the analysis concludes: