biblical passages tend to contain hortatory textsExample:"Let us come forward to the Holy of Holies with a true heart in full assurance of faith." (Hebrews 10:22)
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more
Or close up the wall with our English dead.
In peace, nothing more becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility.
But when the blast of war...
A "hortatory explanation" is an explanation intended to exhort (meaning urge or persuade) a person to act a certain way. Typically it is associated with religious texts or sermons where, for example,...