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BUT perhaps it is a difficulty to you that all this time I am chiefly
using the witness of the Apostle Paul alone. He is good enough for me, whom
God chose, nor do I blush to call as the witness to my faith, the man whom
God willed to be the teacher of the whole world. But to yield to your
wishes, as perhaps you fancy that I have no other proofs to use, hear the
perfect mystery of man's salvation and eternal bliss, which Martha
proclaims in the gospel. For what does she say? "Of a truth, Lord, I have
believed that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, who art come
into this world." Learn the true faith from a woman. Learn the
confession of eternal hope. Yet you have a splendid consolation: you need
not blush to be taught the mystery of salvation by her, whose testimony God
did not refuse to accept.
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