And his apostles do not come as propagandists of
a secular doctrine of salvation «with sublimity of words or of wisdom» (1 Cor 2:1), but as «ministers of the Word» (Luke 1:2), as his «witnesses to the ends of the earth» (Acts 1:8), as preachers and teachers of the Gentiles in «faith and truth» (cf. 1 Tim 2:7).