and to say that faith formed by love justifies! Why do they not leave each within its own fixed bounds? Faith is assuredly nothing else—nor can it be anything else—than giving assent to a promise. But if this assent is reckoned as righteousness, why, you foolish sophist, do you make the same claim for love, hope, and other virtues? I know that these are outstanding gifts of God and are required by Him, that they are called forth and sustained in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. I know that faith does