ACC ~ Romans 10 v10
CONSISTENCY NEEDED. IGNATIUS: It is better for a man to be silent and be a Christian than to talk and not be one. ⌠Men believe with the heart and confess with the mouth, the one unto righteousness, the other unto salvation. It is good to teach, if the teacher also does what he says. EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 15.
HEART AND MOUTH. AMBROSE: With these twin trumpets of heart and mouth we arrive at that holy land, viz., the grace of resurrection. So let them always sound together in harmony for us, that we may always hear the voice of God. Let the utterances of the angels and prophets arouse us and move us to hasten to higher things. ON THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER SATYRUS 2.112.
THE RULE OF FAITH. AMBROSIASTER: What Paul previously spoke about he now makes clear. The rule of faith is to believe that Jesus is Lord and not to be ashamed to confess that God raised him from the dead and has taken him up to heaven with his body, whence he will come again. COMMENTARY ON PAULâS EPISTLES.
CHRYSOSTOM: The understanding must be strongly fixed in pious faith, and the tongue must herald forth by its confession the solid resolution of the mind. BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS 1.19.
THE SIMPLICITY OF CONFESSION. AUGUSTINE: The innumerable and multiple rites by which the Jewish people had been oppressed have been taken away, so that in the mercy of God we might attain salvation by the simplicity of a confession of faith. AUGUSTINE ON ROMANS 67.
A CONSISTENT PROFESSION. AUGUSTINE: Did not almost all those who disowned Christ in the presence of their persecutors keep in their hearts what they believed about him? Yet, for not making with their mouth profession of faith unto salvation they perished, except those who repented and lived again. AGAINST LYING 6.13.
BAPTISMAL PROFESSION. AUGUSTINE: This condition is fulfilled at the time of baptism, when faith and profession of faith are all that is demanded for one to be baptized. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE 13.
AUGUSTINE: This profession of faith is the creed which you will be going over in your thoughts and repeating from memory. THE CREED 1.
AUGUSTINE: We who expect to reign in everlasting righteousness can only be saved from this wicked world if while for our neighborâs salvation we profess with our lips the faith which we carry about in our heart, we exercise a pious and careful vigilance to see that this faith in us is not sullied in any point of belief by the deceitful snares of heretics. FAITH AND THE CREED 1.1.
PELAGIUS: If faith avails for righteousness and confession for salvation, there is no distinction between the Jew who believes and the Gentile who believes. PELAGIUSâS COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.
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