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The varieties of expression whose service I use, and which you not only fail to imitate but even attack, were developed by refinement in Greek and Latin, not in every language.Other languages are called natural because subsequent cultivation has brought them neither richness nor polish; they use entirely simple names for bodily parts.Thus among the Hebrews, in whose language Scripture’s purity is contained, everything is indicated by its own proper word.
Has tamen elocutionum diversitates, quas tu non solum non imitaris, verum etiam criminaris, quarum nos adiuvamur officiis, non linguarum omnium, sed graecae et latinae cultus invenit. Ceterum linguae aliae, quae naturales vocantur, ob hoc quod nihil eis aut opum aut nitoris studia secuta contulerint, simplicibus omnino nominibus membrorum abutuntur; unde et apud Hebraeos, quorum sermone Scripturarum puritas continetur, propriis omnia vocabulis indicantur.