Excerpt from Christian Oratory: An Inquiry Into Its History During the First Five Centuries
Now, when we take up an ordinary Biblical oommen tary written by one of our contemporaries or immediate predecessors, the level is indeed dull and unrelieved. It is not so with the average of commentaries and sermons which were written fifteen hundred years ago. In this case we are looking at the documents of Christian Faith, as it were over the shoulders of students and expositors with whom, Christianity apart, we have nothing, or very little, in com mon. The very act of translating their language wakens the attention; the effort necessary to transport us from our own point of view to theirs throws a new light into the numberless passages of real merit, and often freshens those that are dull. And this has been the feeling of more than one modern divine, whose predilections may be generally considered to have led him in another direction. Among the well - scored books of Archbishop Leighton at Dunblane, there were few more frequently marked with the pencil, than the Homilies of St Chrysostom, and the Minor Treatises of St Augustine’.
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