2. Recognized and lucrative position of the teaching profession 37-40 3. Social position of its professors 40-42 4. Its persistent survival up to to-day in general education, in special terms and usages 42-48 Into such an artificial habit of mind Christianity came 48, 49 LECTURE III. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN EXEGESIS. To the Greek the mystery of writing, the reverence for antiquity, the belief in inspiration, gave the ancient poets a unique value 50, 51 Homer, his place in moral education; used by the Sophists in ethics, physics, metaphysics, &c. 52-57 Apologies for this use culminate in allegory, especially among the Stoics 57-64 The Allegoric temper widespread, particularly in things religious. Adopted by Hellenistic Jews, especially at Alexandria; Philo 65-69 Continued by early Christian exegesis in varied schools, chiefly as regards the Prophets, in harmony with Greek thought, and as a main line of apologetic 69-74 Application to the New Testament writings by the Gnostics and the Alexandrines 75, 76 Its aid as solution of the Old Testament problem, especially in Origen 77-79 Reactions both Hellenic and Christian: viz. in 1. The Apologists’ polemic against Greek mythology 79, 80 2. The Philosophers’ polemic against Christianity 80 3. Certain Christian Schools, especially the Antiochene 81, 82 Here hampered by dogmatic complications 82 Use and abuse of allegory—the poetry of life 82, 83 Alien to certain drifts of the modern spirit, viz. 1. Historic handling of literature 84 2. Recognition of the living voice of God 84, 85 LECTURE IV. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN RHETORIC. The period one of widely diffused literary culture. The Rhetorical Schools, old and new 86-88 Sophistic largely pursued the old lines of Rhetoric, but also philosophized and preached professionally 88-94 Its manner of discourse; its rewards 94-99 Objections of earnest men; reaction led by Stoics like Epictetus 99-105 Significance for Christianity 105 Primitive Christian “prophesying” _v._ later “preaching.”