Habakkuk 2:4 (WEB)
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
Fathers and councils · 21
Augustine of Hippo
“Inasmuch as it is a position, written and established on the most solid foundation of apostolic teaching, “that the just lives of faith;” and inasmuch also as this faith demands of us the duty at once of heart and tongue,—for an apostle says, “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and…” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11; Heb. x. 38
Read the whole comment“The faithful; because it is “by faith that the just shall live.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
Read the whole comment““For the just,” as is written, “shall live by faith.”” — editor's note: Habak. ii. 4
Read the whole comment“Neither let schismatics promise themselves anything of that reward; for similarly, where there is no love, there cannot be righteousness, for “love worketh no ill to his neighbour;” and if they had it, they would not tear in pieces Christ’s body, which is the Church.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4 and Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“Whether it be then that as rising again in Him, and in Him coming to the Father, we are invisibly and in justification perfected; or that as not seeing and yet…” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“Forasmuch as they have thought proper to distribute virtue into four divisions—prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance—and as each of these divisions has its own virtues, faith is among the parts of justice, and has the chief place with as many of us as know what that saying means, “The just shall live by faith.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“And thus it is written, “The just lives by faith,” for we do not as yet see our good, and must therefore live by faith; neither have we in ourselves power to live rightly, but can do so only if He who has given us faith to believe in His help do help us when we believe and pray.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“It believes also the Holy Scriptures, old and new, which we call canonical, and which are the source of the faith by which the just lives and by which we walk without doubting whilst we are absent from the Lord.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Faith, for “the just doth live by faith.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“But having obtained that grace of faith, thou shalt be just by faith (for the just lives by faith); and thou shalt obtain favor of God by living by faith.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“But after His servant-form was itself also withdrawn from their view, then in every respect was the word truly fulfilled, “The just liveth by faith.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17; Hab. ii. 4; and Heb. xi. 1.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“But this fact, that the just shall live by faith, had been previously announced by the prophets.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“And for this reason the God of all said to the prophet “The just shall live by his faith, and if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.”” — editor's note: Heb. x. 38. Cf. Hab. ii. 4. Sept. Note inverted quotation of Habakkuk.
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Tertullian
“For each individual lives by his own faith, nor is there exception of persons with God; since it is not hearers of the law who are justified by the Lord, but doers, according to what the apostle withal says.” — editor's note: See Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11; Heb. x. 38.
Read the whole comment“But even if the stimulus of her repentance proceeded from her faith, she heard her justification by faith through her repentance pronounced in the words, “Thy faith hath saved thee,” by Him who had declared by Habakkuk, “The just shall live by his faith.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…Christ,” in order that thenceforward man might be justified by the liberty of faith, not by servitude to the law, “because the just shall live by his faith.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
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Leo the Great
“This virtue makes all virtues profitable; for by its presence it gives life to that very faith, by which “the just lives,” and which is said to be “dead without works:” because as the reason for works consists in faith, so the strength of faith consists in works.” — editor's note: Habb. ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…commands, because “without faith it is impossible to please God,” and without it nothing is holy, nothing is pure, nothing alive: “for the just lives by faith,” and he who by the devil’s deception loses it, is dead though living, because as righteousness is gained by faith, so too by a true faith is eternal life…” — editor's note: Habbakuk ii. 4.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Now my just one shall live by faith,” the prophet said.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Moreover, that righteousness should subsist by faith, and that in it was life, was predicted in Habakkuk: “Now the just shall live by faith of me.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“In Habakkuk: “But the righteous liveth by my faith.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4.
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Cross-references · 47
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.43.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.43.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 17.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 17.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 17.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 17.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.18.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.6.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 17.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.6 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
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