Well, how about, quotes? Each person who studies the Fathers ends up with a favorite or two. I certainly treasure above all Chrysostom and Chrysologus. My good friend, Pastor David Jay Webber (ELS), he loves St. Ambrose. And justly so. Check out this great page of patristic goodies from St. Augustine's teacher:
Ambrose on Law and Gospel
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Pastor Webber is now one of the authors of the "Blog of Concord" ... which I notice you have not yet gratuitously plugged, in spite of the fact that you are an author on that blog site too!
Of course, if you want to have the sheer joy of brilliant rhetoric, you must read Augustine's sermons in the best translation of them out there: Augustine for the 21st Century. Brilliant! An unsurpassed master. The Christian "Cicero" ... truly.
His sermon on the Ten Commandments, based on the phrase, "I will praise Thee on the ten stringed harp" is sheer genius.
Nobody is better than Augustine when i comes to word play and masterful rhetoric.
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