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Leo the Great

5th century · AD 461 · Western · 165 passages

Bishop of Rome whose Tome clarified how Christ is both divine and human; a plain and dignified preacher.

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In his own words on Habakkuk

  • Habakkuk 2:4

    And hence Tobias also, while instructing his son in the precepts of godliness, says, "Give alms of your substance, and turn not your face from any poor man. So shall it come to pass that the face of God shall not be turned from you." This virtue makes all virtues profitable, for by its precepts it gives life to that very faith by which "the just lives" and which is said to be "dead without works." As the reason for works consists in faith, so the strength of faith consists in works.

    SERMON 10:4

Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.