| When Israel was a child I loved him and out Egypt I called my son.
__________________ Faith,then,is a comprehensive knowledge, so to speak, of the essentials; but knowledge is the strong and firm proof of what is accepted through faith, and which leads to infallibility and understanding and to sudden comprehension. And it seems to me that first saving change from paganism to faith, as I said before; and the second is that from faith to knowledge. This latter develops into love, and afterwards presents the one loving to Him that is loved, and the one knowing to Him that is known. And, such a one, perhaps, has already attained the condition of being like to an angel. ~ St. Clement of Alexandria |