Persuasion
PERSUASION
The act of influencing the judgment and passions by arguments or motives. It is different from conviction. Conviction affects the understanding only; persuasion the will and the practice. It is more extensively used than conviction, which last is founded on demonstration natural or supernatural. But all things of which we may be persuaded, are not capable of demonstration.
See Blair’s Rhetoric, vol. 2: p. 174.
Fuente: Theological Dictionary
Persuasion
the act of influencing the judgment and passions by arguments or motives. It is different from conviction. Conviction affects the understanding only; persuasion the will and practice. It is more extensively used than conviction, which last is founded on demonstration, natural or supernatural. But all things of which we may be persuaded are not capable of demonstration. Eloquence is but the art of persuasion. See Blair, Rhetoric; Maury, Principles of Eloquence; Pulpit Orator.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Persuasion
akin to peitho, is used in Gal 5:8, where the meaning is “this influence that has won you over, or that seems likely to do so;” the use of peitho, in the sense of “to obey,” in Gal 5:7, suggests a play upon words here.