Literary notes about Exhortation (AI summary)
Across various works, "exhortation" is deployed as a powerful rhetorical device meant to inspire action and moral reflection. In sacred writings, it serves as a call to repentance, virtue, and piety ([1], [2], [3], [4]), while in narrative literature it often emerges as an impassioned appeal urging characters toward decisive change or steadfast commitment ([5], [6], [7]). Classical histories and religious discourses alike utilize exhortation to rally groups, encourage devotion, and even motivate strategic actions in battle ([8], [9]). Whether addressing individuals, communities, or armies, the term conveys an earnest, sometimes formal, bid to guide behavior and reinforce values.
- An exhortation to repentance: God's favour through Christ to the penitent.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Wisdom Chapter 1 An exhortation to seek God sincerely, who cannot be deceived, and desireth not our death.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Deuteronomy Chapter 10 God giveth the second tables of the law: a further exhortation to fear and serve the Lord.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Proverbs Chapter 5 An exhortation to fly unlawful lust, and the occasions of it.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - Father Païssy, too, uttered some words of exhortation which moved and surprised him greatly.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - That once conceded, I return to my exhortation.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - He also gave a particular exhortation to the principal men of the Hebrews, and encouraged the whole army as it stood armed before him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus - The exhortation of the generals was brief and forcible: "Paradise is before you, the devil and hell-fire in your rear."
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon