Please, I ask you, as much as you have the ability, make diligent prayer to the Lord for me, for in a moment of anger I mistakenly uttered a question, after which, I began to experience a feeling of condemnation, which, though it is not feeling intense, nonetheless is a bother to me, because, not anymore in the same way do I feel the Spirit of God. For I uttered a question, which does not mean what the word may be twisted into, and shortly thereafter, having discovered a thing that I did not formerly know, the fact that in meter the type of a foot, and not just the placement of the accent, even the same must fit with the words, having discovered this, and thereafter successful in doing a few experiments, I wondered whether this kind of eloquence, which I already had in times past, but not to the measure that now I attained it, was given because of the question I uttered, which had no meaning like what I feared.
For I already had much knowledge of syntax, and a lot of knowledge of prose rhythm, but a certain discovery never came to me, until this very time, though in times past I could easily fit words to iambic meter; but the question I uttered, meaning nothing for worry, being possibly misconstrued, caused me to fear that God did not give the eloquence. Therefore I ask not only for prayer, but also for consolation, because this is now another time in which this worry came to me.
As to the eloquence itself, forgive me for boasting, but for the sake of the post I mentioned it.
And I still confess with my mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in my heart God raised Him from the dead, having my trust in Him as my Savior, the Son of God having come in the flesh, who died to atone for every sin once for all time for all people, who was also buried and rose again from the dead. But I know that the enemy would want me to doubt the faithfulness and truth of God and His Word, and to believe some other doctrine than what it says.
Now I'll just speak plainly. I also was put on an anti-depressant, and every time I exercise, and eat salmon for several days, I become more verbally flexible, but for a long time I lacked skill with prose rhythm till I learned that the type of the foot is important.
Apparently, the rhythms I was making were decent most of the time. I simply was not fitting the right words to them.
For I already had much knowledge of syntax, and a lot of knowledge of prose rhythm, but a certain discovery never came to me, until this very time, though in times past I could easily fit words to iambic meter; but the question I uttered, meaning nothing for worry, being possibly misconstrued, caused me to fear that God did not give the eloquence. Therefore I ask not only for prayer, but also for consolation, because this is now another time in which this worry came to me.
As to the eloquence itself, forgive me for boasting, but for the sake of the post I mentioned it.
And I still confess with my mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in my heart God raised Him from the dead, having my trust in Him as my Savior, the Son of God having come in the flesh, who died to atone for every sin once for all time for all people, who was also buried and rose again from the dead. But I know that the enemy would want me to doubt the faithfulness and truth of God and His Word, and to believe some other doctrine than what it says.
Now I'll just speak plainly. I also was put on an anti-depressant, and every time I exercise, and eat salmon for several days, I become more verbally flexible, but for a long time I lacked skill with prose rhythm till I learned that the type of the foot is important.
Apparently, the rhythms I was making were decent most of the time. I simply was not fitting the right words to them.
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