sophistik

Updated: April 30, 2025

Agreeing, as in the main I do, with the sentiments here expressed by this eloquent writer, I must notice that he has, however, mistaken the sense of the [Greek: saemeion], which the Jews would have tempted our Saviour to shew, namely, the signal for revolt by openly declaring himself their king, and leading them against the Romans. The foreknowledge that this superstition would shortly hurry them into utter ruin caused the deep sigh, as on another occasion, the bitter tears. Again, by the [Greek: sophía] of the Greeks their disputatious [Greek: sophistik

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.