Original Douay–Rheims Annotations1 Corinthians 1

In all knowledge.

^◦ Observe that the Apostles never wrote their letters but to such as were converted to Christ's faith before. For men cannot lightly learn the Christian religion by reading Scriptures, but by hearing, and by the presence of their teachers, which may instruct them at large and particularly of every Article, as clearly & briefly by letters they could not do. Neither doth now any man learn his faith first, but by hearing of his parents and Masters. For if we should when we come to years of discretion, be set to pick our faith out of the Scriptures, there would be a mad

• ◦ Faith cometh by hearing rather than reading.