And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
According to the teaching of the Catholic church, the Christian mind must first be nourished in simple faith, in order that it may become capable of understanding things heavenly and eternal. Thus it is said by the prophet: “Unless you believe, you shall not understand.” Simple faith is that by which, before we attain to the height of the knowledge of the love of Christ so that we may be filled with all the fullness of God, we believe that the dispensation of Christ’s humiliation was not without reason, in which he was born and suffered as man, foretold so long before by the prophets through a prophetic race, a prophetic people, a prophetic kingdom.
