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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...

secret was entrusted to us alone and we were the mutual witnesses of the wonder. Or shall we continue to keep our faith to her who has departed? Yet it seems to me that, while there was then a time for silence, now is the time to reveal it, not only for the glory of God, but also for the consolation of those in affliction. (17) She was sick in body and grievously afflicted with a malady of a strange and unusual character. All at once her whole body became fevered, with a heightening of the temperature
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