Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Methodius/Oration on the Palms/Elucidations

Elucidations.

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candid Dupin says that we owe this to P&#232;re Combefis, on the authority of a. in the Royal Library of Paris. It appeared in Sir Henry Savile&#8217;s edition of Chrysostom ascribed to that Father. Dupin doubts as to parts of this homily, if not as to the whole. He adds, &#8220;The style of Methodius is Asiatic, diffuse, swelling, and abounding in epithet. His expressions are figurative, and the turn of his sentences artificial. He is full of similitudes and far-fetched allegories. His thoughts are mysterious, and he uses many words to say a few things.&#8221; His doctrine, apart from these faults, is sound, and free from some errors common to the ancients: such faults as I have frequently apologized for in Origen, whom Methodius so generally condemns.