The implied answer is, of course, nobody. While Augustine does go on to insist that skillful rhetoric (and, more specifically, eloquence) is unnecessary to bring about another’s salvation, he also contends that it can make Christian wisdom more palatable.9 “We often have to take bitter medicines,” he writes, “and we must always avoid sweet things that are dangerous: but what better than sweet things that give health, or medicines that are sweet? The more we are attracted by sweetness, the easier it is for medicine to do its healing work.”10 Truth presented persuasively is sweet medicine.
