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\u201cPaul\u2019s refusal to deploy the arts of persuasion (1 Thess. 2.4; Gal. 1.10) is itself a topos<\/em> from the world of rhetoric, evincing a common awareness of the dangers involved in being too adaptable to one\u2019s audience.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2014 F. Gerald Downing, Doing Things With Words In The First Christian Century<\/a>\"\"<\/em> <\/div>\n
(JSNTS 200, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000) p.84.<\/div>\n
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