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New Testament XI: James, 1–2 Peter, 1–3 John, Jude is unavailable, but you can change that!

Allusions to these letters go back as far as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Tertullian, but the first commentary derives from Clement of Alexandria. Didymus the Blind was the next significant Greek-speaking commentator, though his commentary is fully extant only in Latin translation. Many of the comments from the early centuries have been passed on to us through Latin catenae, or chain commentaries,...

merely uttering the words is enough to save us. For our life and behavior must be pure as well. CATENA.16 . SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN: Faith is shown by deeds like the features of the face in a mirror. DISCOURSES 29.4.17 . AUGUSTINE: Those who believe and act according to true faith do live and are not dead, but those who do not believe, or else who believe like the demons, trembling but living evilly, proclaiming
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