11.  On these grounds, as I have said, I leave others, who have leisure to admire the minor details of his character, to admire and extol him.  I call them minor details only in comparing him and his character with his own standard, for that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious, even though it be exceeding splendid by reason of the glory that surpasseth, 2 Cor. iii. 10. as we are told; for indeed the minor points of his excellence would suffice to win celebrity for others.  But since it would be intolerable for me to leave the word and serve Acts vi. 2. less important details, I must turn to that which is his chief characteristic; and God alone, on Whose behalf I am speaking, can enable me to say anything worthy of a soul so noble and so mighty in the word.