- Endorsed a classical model of emulation and practice rather than codification
- Parses up truth from eloquence (or its representation)
- Ciceronian
- to teach (instruct) , to please, to move
- Is completely fine with plagiarism, because Truth belongs to God (not the individual)
- On Christian Doctrine
- Augustine claims this isn't a codification of rules.
- Recalling Aristotle, he states that obviously lies can be attractive, so it's foolish to believe that truth shouldn't be similarly powerful.
- However, scriptural truth shouldn't be distorted, but it should be presented to best advantage.
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