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Paul’s letters to the Thessalonica and Galatia are not words of disinterested philosophy nor cold catechetical teaching. They are words of fire, burning with the love of God and his people. These early epistles have endured through the centuries to burn in our hearts as well. In Words of Fire: The Early Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians and the Galatians, Farley works from a literal...

love (Gr. energeo; compare its use in describing the supernatural power of God in Matt. 14:2), St. Paul acknowledges the ethical element in faith. Saving faith (Gr. pistis) is not a bare acknowledgement of the facts of the Gospel or a mere mental acceptance of God’s love. It is not simply a matter of saying yes to God and then getting on with life, trusting that now you are saved. “Faith” is also “faithfulness” (see 5:22, where the same word pistis is so used) and consists of a fervent determination
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