Chapter 6 (79)
Distinction XXIII | 99 to his members."' [—AUGUSTINE, ON THE PSALM:] "By this faith, the impious is justified, so that thenceforth faith itself begins to work through love. For those works alone are to be called good which are done through the love of God.""— AUGUSTINE, ON JOHN: "Even love itself is called the work of faith."
2. And so the faith which demons and false Christians have is a quality of the mind, but it is formless, because it is without charity. That the evil ones too have faith, even as they lack charity, is shown by the Apostle who says: Jf I should have all faith, but do not have charity, etc.* But this faith too can be called a gift of God, because even in those who are evil there are some gifts of God."
Chapter 5 (78)
WHETHER THAT FORMLESS QUALITY OF MIND, WHICH IS IN THE EVIL
CHRISTIAN, BECOMES A VIRTUE WHEN HE BECOMES GOOD. But if it should be asked whether that formless quality, by which the evil Christian believes all the same things as the good Christian, remains and becomes a virtue with the coming of charity, or whether it is removed and replaced by another quality, which is a virtue, either view may be held without danger. But it seems to me that the same quality which was there earlier remains and becomes a virtue with the coming of charity.
Chapter 6 (79) 1. IN WHAT SENSE FAITH IS SAID TO BE ONE. Although faith is spoken of in different ways, yet it is to be professed that there is one faith, as the Apostle says: One Lord, one faith.' Indeed, whether faith is taken for that which is believed, or for that by which one believes, faith is rightly said to be one.
2. AMBROSE. If it is taken for that which is believed, it is said to be one faith in this sense, because "we are commanded to believe the same thing,' and "that which is believed" by all the faithful "is one and the same"; that is why the faith is called 'Catholic,' that is, universal.
'Partly from ordinary gloss, on James 2, 23; Bede on James 2, 19; Augustine, /n Ioannem, tr. 29 n6.
* Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, on Ps. 67, 32-33, n41.
Augustine, /n J Joannis, tr. 10 nl. th Corsion 2) °Cf. above dist. 20 cl n2.
'Eph. 4, 5.
Ordinary gloss, on Eph. 4, 5 .
That is, Ambrosiaster, on Eph. 4, 4.