A brief overview of the rhetorical, theological and homiletical literature on the crucial properties of sermons reveals that the biblical text and the sermon complement each other. The comparison of Trubar's sermon and contemporary sermonic discourse proves the importance of the notion of reference to the biblical text for understanding sermons as a genre. By examining the transtextual devices employed in Trubar's sermon it is possible to display the generic structure of the protestant sermon and relate it to the contemporary catholic sermon.
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