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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Whereunto He called you through our Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." This too is no little thing, if Christ considers our salvation His glory. For it is the glory of the Friend of man that they that are saved should be many. Great then is our Lord, if the Holy Spirit so desires our salvation. Why did he not say faith first? Because even after sanctification we have yet need of much faith, that we may not be shaken. Seest thou how He shows that nothing is of themselves, but all of God?
Gregory of Nyssa
And let no one interrupt me, by saying that what we confess should also be confirmed by constructive reasoning: for it is enough for proof of our statement, that the tradition has come down to us from our fathers, handled on, like some inheritance, by succession from the apostles and the saints who came after them. …
Cyril of Jerusalem
In learning and professing the faith, embrace and guard that only which is now delivered to you by the church and confirmed by all the Scriptures. For since not everyone has the education and the leisure required to read and know the Scriptures, to prevent the soul perishing from ignorance, we sum up the whole doctrine of the faith in a few lines.… For the present, just listen and memorize the creed as I recite it, and you will receive in due course the testimony from Scripture of each of its propositions. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says "to which he has also called you by our Gospel", he sets out the second divine favor, which is the temporal calling of Christ, which follows on God's choice. "Those whom he called, these he also justified" (Rom 8:30). And concerning this calling, note the parable about the man who made a great dinner (Luke 14:16). And he adds "by our Gospel", i.e., the Gospel preached by me. But to what dinner are we called? "Unto the purchasing of the glory", i.e., that we may acquire the glory of Christ.
Vincent of Lérins
I have often then inquired earnestly and attentively of very many men eminent for sanctity and learning, how and by what sure and so to speak universal rule I may be able to distinguish the truth of Catholic faith from the falsehood of heretical pravity; and I have always, and in almost every instance, received an answer to this effect: That whether I or any one else should wish to detect the frauds and avoid the snares of heretics as they rise, and to continue sound and complete in the Catholic faith, we must, the Lord helping, …
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