The First Book of Logical Exercises by Andreas Libavius

continues from previous page: is a product of supine negligence. The precept concerning orthotomizing rightly dividing/handling the word of truth requires something else. We know the Savior and the chosen instrument, D. Paul, commend the foolishness that the world thinks, and simplicity; but that does not oppose logical science. For by what art did both argue? How he thunders! There is no one more logic-minded than Christ and Paul. There is no logical precept that is not founded in their sermons. And indeed, a power of teaching is attributed to Christ by his listeners, unlike that of the scribes. Paul is said to be mad due to the greatness of his erudition, and his eloquence seemed worthy of being attributed to Mercury, the most eloquent of the Heathen gods. But yet these Teachers were simple among the simple, and by a kind of teaching despised by the sophists of the world, that which we say is κατὰ συμβεβηκός by accident/incidentally. For in itself, there is nothing more elevated, nothing more wondrous, so that no eloquence is its equal.
Concerning the ancients who rejected Dialectics.

As far as the example of the ancients is concerned, we know indeed that the abuse of Dialectics in the primitive church frightened away many; but after it was evident that the greatest Teachers were distinguished by the trust in this art and resisted the sophists, the opinion was changed. And the apostate Julian the Apostate forbade logic to be taught in the schools of Christians, not because he thought their doctrine would be corrupted, but so that they would not have the weapons they could use against the sophists.