Men, brethren, and fathers, hear you my defense which I make now unto you.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Mark his address, at once so free from all flattery, and so expressive of meekness. For he says not, Masters, nor Lords, but, Brethren, just the word they most liked: I am no alien from. you, he says, nor against you. Men, he says, brethren, and fathers: this, a term of honor, that of kindred. Hear ye, says he, my— he says not, teaching, nor harangue, but, my defence which I now make unto you. He puts himself in the posture of a suppliant. And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence.
