The Christian Clergy of the First Ten Centuries: Their Beneficial Influence ...
The Christian Clergy of the First Ten Centuries: Their Beneficial Influence ...
Mackenzie Henry
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c. 40), ' lUud autem semel monuisse sufficiat, nosse me cubitum et cubita neutrali appel- lari genere ; sed pro simplicitate et facilitate intelligentis vulgique consuetudine ponere masculino ; non enim nobis curae est vitare ser- monum vitia, sed Scripturae Sancts quibuscunque verbis disserere.' Et alio loco (De Vest. SacerdoL [Ep. 64. c. 11]). CamisicB voca- bulum usurpaturus, 'Volo,' inquit, 'pro legentis facilitate abuti sermone vulgari.*" After other quotations, he adds (c. 58,) ''Denique,... ut ceteros qui id argumenti sunt prosecuti omittam, Salvianus carpens Digitized by Google 76 THE BENEFICIAL INFLUENCE [CH. seems as unnatural to class such a man with a Ghrysostom or a Gregory Nazianzen, as it would have been in a later age to compare the thoughtless Abb^ of the Versailles Court with the erudite disciples of St Maur or the stem followers of De Banc^i. But although the verdict of history must assign their true relative positions to such very different ornaments of the clerical order as those we have above contrasted, yet it must be remarked that in the Bishop of Clermont is extant a representative of a mode of sacerdotal action, destined, under the Carlovingian Emperors, to stand for- ward in far greater prominence.
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