faith, or who have begun now newly to have shall begin on the shore to be separated.
CONCERNING FAITH OF THINGS NOT SEEN. 343 that took upon Him Man, even if He had| before foretold, through the Prophet foretold no such things|come, which are promised, to come?
so will things eternal also
Nor let them But when now this so great mys-| deceive you, either the vain heathen, or the tery of godliness hath had its prophets and! false Jews, or the deceitful heretics, or also heralds going before, by whose divine voices it was afore proclaimed; and when it hath come in such manner as it was afore proclaimed, who is there so mad as to assert that the Apostles lied concerning Christ, of Whom they preached that He was come in such manner as the Prophets foretold afore that He should come, which Prophets were not silent as to true things to come concerning the Apostles themselves? For concerning these they had said, '* There is neither speech nor language, whereof their voices are not heard; their sound went out into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.''* And this at any rate we see fulfilled in the world, although we have not yet seen Christ in the flesh. Who therefore, unless blinded by amazing madness, or hard and steeled by amazing obstinacy, would be unwilling to put faith in the sacred Scriptures, which have foretold the faith of the whole world?
within the Catholic (Church) itself evil Christians, enemies by so much the more hurtful, as they are the more within us, For, lest on this subject also the weak should be troubled, divine prophecy hath not been silent, where in the Song of Songs the Bridegroom speaking unto the Bride, that is, Christ the Lord unto the Church, saith, *'As a lily in the midst of thorns, so is my best Beloved? in the midst of the daughters.''3 He said not, in the midst of them that are without; but, ''in the midst of daughters. Whoso hath ears to hear, let him hear: ''4 and whilst the net which is cast into the sea,' and gathers together all kinds of fishes, as saith the holy Gospel, is being drawn unto the shore, that is, unto the end of the world, let him separate himself from the evil fishes, in heart, not in body; by changing evil habits, not by breaking sacred nets; lest they who now seem being approved to be mingled with the reprobate, find, not life, but punishment everlasting,® when they shall begin on the shore to be separated.
11. But you, beloved, who possess this faith, or who have begun now newly to have it, let it be nourished and increase in you. For as things temporal have come, so long
2 Proxima. 3 Song of Sol. ii. 2. 4 Matt. xiil. 9. 5 Matt. xii. 47-50 6 Some mss. '' that they &c. may find not punishment, but life.""
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