And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
When we investigate in the Scriptures (which are throughout spiritual), we are able by the grace of God to explain some of them, while we must leave others in the hands of God, and that not only in the present world, but also in that which is to come, so that God should for ever teach, and man should for ever learn the things taught him by God? As the apostle has said on this point, that, when other things have been done away, then these three, "faith, hope, and charity, shall endure.".
For faith, which has respect to our Master, endures.
