| A deeply spiritual prayer engages the souls of all who are present and will move the hearers often to tears. |
| My dear hearers, this very straitness of the path, this narrowness of the path, doth have in it something discouraging. |
| There are lengthy charts illustrating the kind of rhetorical strategies used to enhance the literary appeal of the letter to its hearers. |
| The verse rhythm should have its effect upon the hearers without their being conscious of it. |
| The original hearers of the work were, after all, the congregation present at a solemn liturgy, not the audience at a concert. |
| Their aim is to persuade his hearers to pursue the better and safer path by alerting them to the danger of eternal perdition. |
