homiletical

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The term Midrash, however, more commonly implies agada, i.e. the homiletical exposition of the text, with illustrations designed to make it more attractive to the readers or hearers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

Their writings, biblical, controversial, doctrinal, historical and homiletical, covered the whole arena of literature.

From The Interdependence of Literature by Curtis, Georgina Pell

Nor did he find an easy mode of preparation for the pulpit by giving his theological lectures a homiletical form.

From Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by Purves, George Tybout

Indeed, the discourse would have failed to satisfy most of those elementary canons upon which the homiletical professors lay such stress.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)

But, without seeking to be homiletical, let the writer be permitted to add, a far higher purpose than mere literary amusement, or the gratification of taste, is designed by the present volume.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund