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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
He calls the person empty who boasts of faith alone, because, not realizing it in deeds, he has acquired no fullness.
Oecumenius
But will you know O vain man, that faith without works is dead? James called a man vain who boasts of a bare faith, when he has obtained nothing of substance for completion through works.
Western Saints
Bede
Do you want to know, O empty man, that faith without works is idle? Because the Apostle Paul, preaching that a man is justified by faith without works, was not well understood by those who took it to mean that once they believed in Christ, even if they acted badly and lived wickedly and wickedly, they would be saved by faith: this passage of this epistle explains how the same sense of the Apostle Paul should be understood. …
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