8But what does it say? The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach);1 This is said in Deuteronomy in order to show that belief [in Christ] is not all that foreign to our mind or to our nature. Even though we cannot see him with our eyes, what we believe is not out of harmony with the nature of our minds and our way of speaking. There are seeds, as it were, planted in our nature which, if they are tended by hearing and the will, will bear the fruit