Isagoge ad lectionem epistolarum divi Pauli apostoli, qua compositionis oeconomia, et germana dispositio indicatur. Opusculum recens. Benedicto Aretio authore.

delivered among the philosophers, and those which he gave in Jerusalem, in Acts 22 and 23 and the following chapters, in which it appears he was powerful with a certain force of persuasion, which the Greeks call δείνωσιν vehemence or force of speech. Such also are his disputations, like that in Acts 13 against that sorcerer, and in chapter 9 against the Jews. His epistles also pertain to this, as they are rich witnesses of his eloquence and learning. And that he was skilled in Gentile literature is proven by the testimonies in Titus chapter 1, where he cites a verse from Epimenides. Likewise, Acts 17 cites a hemistich from Aratus, and the first to the Corinthians 15 a line from Menander, all of which argue that he was skilled in philosophy and more refined literature, and especially in Dialectics, which he could not have learned from any other place