Voltaire said that his sermons surpassed those of Bossuet (whose retirement in 1669, however, practically coincided with Bourdaloue's early pulpit utterances); and there is little doubt that their simplicity and coherence, and the direct appeal which they made to hearers of all classes, gave them a
coherence הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד