Chapter 4 (77): 1. What It Is To Believe God, Or In A God, Or In God.—Bede; Au-
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lieved is another. The former consist in things which are said either to be, or to have been, or to be about to be; but the latter is in the believer's spirit, and is apparent to him alone whose it is."' And yet each of these is called faith, namely that which is believed, and that by which it is believed. That which is believed is called faith, as in: "This is the Catholic faith; whoever does not believe it faithfully and firmly cannot be saved."
2. The faith by which one believes, if it is joined to charity, is a virtue, because, as Ambrose says, "charity is the mother of all virtues"; it informs all of them and without it there is no true virtue. And so faith working through love' is the virtue by which unseen things are believed.
3. AUGUSTINE, IN THE BOOK ON FAITH AND WORKS. This is the foundation which cannot be changed, as the Apostle says;° if it is placed as the foundation, it will allow no one to perish. Hence Augustine: "The foundation is Christ Jesus, that is, faith in Christ, which works through love,° through which Christ lives in our hearts,' and which allows no one to perish. None other is the foundation."® 4. AUGUSTINE, ON THE EPISTLE OF JOHN: "For faith without love is empty. Faith with love pertains to the Christian; the other kind is the demon's, for the demons also believe and tremble."":'°—AUGUSTINE, ON THE LORD'S WORDS: "But it matters much whether one believes Christ, or in a Christ, or in Christ, for the demons too believed that he was Christ,'' but they did not believe in Christ."
Chapter 4 (77)
1. WHAT IT IS TO BELIEVE GOD, OR IN A GOD, OR IN GOD.—BEDE; AU-
GUSTINE: "For it is one thing to believe in God, another to believe in a God, and yet another to believe God. To believe God is to believe that what he says is true, which the evil ones also do; we also believe a man, but not in a man. To believe in a God is to believe that he is God, which the evil ones also do. To believe in God is to love by believing, to go to him by believing, to adhere to him by believing and to be incorporated in- 'Augustine, De Trinitate, bk 13 c2 n5.
Athanasian Creed.
Ordinary gloss, on Rom. 14, 5; cf. Ambrosiaster, on Rom. 14, 5.
"Cr Gals, 6.
Ch iCormseli:
Gal. 5, 6.
Cf. Eph. 3, 17.
'Augustine, De fide et operibus, c16 n27.
*James 2, 19.
' Augustine, /n I Joannis, tr. 10 n2.
NCL iMK=3, 11212) Lk 4,34, Augustine, Sermo 144, c2 n2.