¹ I emphasise this point, as at least two critics of my views seem to imagine that I supposed St. Paul to have deliberately and consciously preferred certain rhythms to others, an idea which I disprove, op. cit., p. 35. To borrow Horace's language (A.P., 274), he, and for that matter Cicero, sonum aure callebat but not digitis; he wrote what sounded satisfactory and did not fit his words to a pre-arranged mechanical pattern.