By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
By faith, the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, having received the spies with peace. It would then be disgraceful, if you should appear more faithless even than a harlot. Yet she [merely] heard what the men related, and immediately believed. Whereupon the end also followed; for when all perished, she alone was preserved. She did not say to herself, I shall be with my many friends. She did not say, Can I possibly be wiser than these judicious men who do not believe—and shall I believe? She said no such thing, but believed what had taken place, which it was likely that they would suffer.
