The weakness is that such a plea makes no assessment of the linguistic support for this usage of en. An occasional usage is apparently equivalent to a dative of reference: “concerning” or “with reference to.”* St. Paul speaks of “what the Scripture says in Elijah” (Rom. 11:2). “In all things we are more than conquerors” (8:37). “Happy is he who has no cause to judge himself in what he approves” (14:22). “Be united in the same mind and the same opinion” (I Cor. 1:10). “Let no one boast in men” (3:21).