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The Christian funeral oration is one of the most elaborate of Christian literary forms. It represents an attempt to adapt to Christian use a pagan Greek form with many hundreds of years behind it.… The Christian masterpieces presented in this volume reflect a long, rich, and varied pagan literary tradition in East and West, and at the same time exhibit modifications and new elements which give...

upright, just as, if sinful, it is dishonorable—in which there is reason, law, and hope, may be condemned to the same dishonor as irrational things and be no more than they after its separation: a lot that is due the wicked, who are worthy even of the eternal fire. (23) Would that I might mortify my members that are upon the earth!31 Would that I might spend all for the spirit, walking in the way that is narrow and trodden by few, not the way that is broad and easy!32 For what comes after this life
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