On the contrary, Faith is a habit, and yet it increases: wherefore the disciples said to our Lord ( Lk. 17:5 ): "Lord, increase our faith." Therefore habits increase. I answer that, Increase, like other things pertaining to quantity, is transferred from bodily quantities to intel…

de die in diem proficere opto, petens a Domino cum ipsis apostolis: [Col. 1070D] Adauge mihi fidem (Luc. XVII, 5) . Hanc Christianam fidem Novi ac Veteris Testamenti pandit auctoritas: et quamvis nomen ipsum Christi vetus intra se continuerit instrumentum, eumque semper designav…

habueritis fidem quasi granum sinapis, et dixeritis monti huic, transi de loco isto, et transibit (Luc. XVII, 5-7) . Omnino putant apostolos, vel parvam fidem habuisse, vel Dominum de fide eorum (quia parva erat) eos arguisse; non intelligentes, quod Paulus apostolus hanc fidem…