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Abstract
This study investigates the attitude of four western Church Fathers toward the use of rhetoric in preaching: St. Cyprian, Arnobius, Lac‐tantius Firmianus, and St. Jerome. All pagan rhetorical principles from Corax and Empedocles of Agrigentum to Sulpicius Victor were rejected, and the classical concepts of rhetoric were inoperative during the patristic era.