Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsGalatians 3
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Read Galatians 3 in the BibleGalatians 3:11
Liveth by faith.
[1] It is neither the Heretics' special presumption and confidence, nor the faith of Devils, nor faith without works which, is dead in it-self as S. James saith [2], that can give life to the just: For that which is dead, cannot be the cause of life. But it is the Catholic faith, as S. Augustine writeth, which worketh by charity (according to the Apostle's own explication of this whole passage) by which the just liveth. Li. 3. c. 5. cont. duas ep. Pelag. See the Annotation upon the same words. Rom. 1.
- 1 Not only faith.
- 2 Iac. 2.
Galatians 3:27
Have put on Christ.
◦ Here the Adversaries might have seen, if they were not blinded by contentious striving against God's Church, that when Justification is attributed to faith without mention of good works or other Christian virtues & Sacraments, it is not meant to exclude any of the same from the working of justice or salvation, for here we learn that by the Sacrament of Baptism also we put on Christ, which is to put on faith, hope, charity, and all Christian justice. By the same we prove also that the Sacraments of the new law give grace, For that the receivers thereof put on Christ. And the Adversary's evasion, that it is faith which worketh in the Sacrament, and not the Sacrament it-self, is plainly false: Baptism giving grace and faith it-self to the infant that had none before.
- ◦ Baptism giveth grace and justification, not faith only.
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Galatians 3:10
Cursed be.
◦ By this place the Heretics would prove that no man is just truly before God, all being guilty of damnation and God's curse, because they keep not every jot of the Law. Where indeed the Apostle meaneth not such as offend venially (as it is plain by the place of Deuteronomy whence he reciteth this text) but only such as commit great and damnable crimes, and so by grievous and mortal transgressions wholly break God's precepts, and thereby incur the curse of the Law, from which the said Law could not deliver them of it-self, nor by any other means, but by the faith and grace of Christ Jesus.