Or, if you’re a soldier on patrol in a minefield, you must know where the mines are placed and be careful to avoid them. You can’t say, “Is that a 10 or 100? Oh, well, it doesn’t matter. If you’re keeping the books for an organization or just balancing your checkbook, it is vital to be exact. Therefore, because of these dangerous waters through which we are navigating, Paul now says, “Look carefully how you walk!” Look carefully means to consider with exactness and precision.
Rather are to expose the unfruitful deeds of darkness as sin and dispel the darkness by leading sinners to Christ. We are not to cover our light and blend in with the darkness. Yet we are walking in a world that is morally and spiritually dark. “Therefore” points back to the preceding context, where we saw that as Christians, we are now children of light (5:8). That is Paul’s subject in our text: walking carefully as children of light in an evil day. You must have a means of direction, a source of power, and pay close attention to the chart. To navigate safely through, you must be very careful.
There are dangerous rocks and reefs that can cause you to shipwreck your faith. The enemy has planted traps and mines to wipe you out. Without these, disaster is almost certain. You would also need an accurate navigational chart and a means of determining your own location, so that you know exactly where the obstacles are and can avoid them. These two necessities become even more essential if you are navigating through dangerous seas. You may drift into rocks or hidden reefs. Or, if you can steer, but you have no power, again you’re in big trouble. You’re at the mercy of the wind and the currents. If you are cruising off the coast and lose your ability to steer, all the power in the world won’t do you any good. A few instances of speeches of this kind are preserved, and they seem to share recurring features, among which the connection between the supplication and the rhetorical use of the past to arouse emotions turns to be particularly relevant.If you’ve ever done any boating, you know that it is essential to have a means of steering and a source of power.
Although supplication is widely attested both in oratory and drama, genres that share well-recognized traits with Greek diplomatic speeches, it was seldom used by ambassadors, and it appears usually unsuccessful. This paper aims at making some preliminary remarks about the role of emotions in Greek diplomatic practice, using the rhetoric of supplication as a test case. L'article revient sur l'appel des ambassadeurs platéens aux juges spartiates en 427, tel que relaté par Thucydide, sur le Plataïque d'Isocrate, écrit en 373 et sur le Presbeutikos logos, discours apocryphe attribué à Thessalos, fils d'Hippocrate de Cos. Les quelques cas attestés partagent néanmoins des caractéristiques récurrentes, notamment le renvoi au passé à travers une mémoire partagée cet expédient rhétorique s'avère une stratégie particulièrement utilisée pour susciter des émotions. Bien qu'elle soit largement attestée dans les plaidoyers et dans le théâtre, qui partagent des traits bien connus avec les discours diplomatiques grecs, la supplication est peu utilisée par les ambassadeurs grecs apparemment, son emploi n'a jamais réussi. Dans ces remarques préliminaires sur le rôle des émotions dans la pratique diplomatique grecque, on se concentrera sur une étude de cas : la rhétorique de la supplication pratiquée par les ambassadeurs dans le monde grec à l'époque classique.
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