24 APRIL 1964, Page 15

THE LANGUAGE OF THEOLOGIANS

SIR,— Can any of your clerical readers explain why theologians intending to tell their readers that the Preamble to a discourse, though capable of expan- sions, should be clear without additions, write, 'The exordium of this exegesis though expansile needs no ePexegesis,?

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