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| The Necessity of Praising Virtue, for Those Who Have the Power.
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IV.—Theopatra.
Chapter I.—The Necessity of
Praising Virtue, for Those Who Have the Power.
If the art of speaking, O virgins, always went by
the same ways, and passed along the same path, there would be no way to
avoid wearying you for one who persisted in the arguments which had
already been urged. But since there are of arguments myriads of
currents and ways, God inspiring us “at sundry times and in
divers manners,”2609
who can have the choice of holding back or of being afraid? For
he would not be free from blame to whom the gift has been given, if he
failed to adorn that which is honourable with words of praise.
Come then, we also, according to our gifts, will sing the brightest and
most glorious star of Christ, which is chastity. For this way of
the Spirit is very wide and large. Beginning, therefore, at the
point from which we may say those things which are suitable and fitting
to the subject before us, let us from thence consider
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