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James 2:17

Eastern Fathers

Oecumenius

So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man says, You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without works: and I will show you by works my faith. You believe that there is one God. You do well: the demons also believe and tremble. "So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself." These things are not opposed to blessed Paul, since the name faith is applied to two meanings. (Rom. …

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Western Saints

Leo the Great

This virtue makes all virtues profitable; for by its presence it gives life to that very faith, by which "the just lives," and which is said to be "dead without works:" because as the reason for works consists in faith, so the strength of faith consists in works.

Sermon 10 On the Collections, 5 ↗