Another Useful Faith Quote
November 07, 2014
Here's another useful faith quote, this from George Foot Moore.
Sometimes you'll hear "experts" asserting that in the Hebrew scriptures faith just means faithfulness, but here's Moore saying that's a misunderstanding.
"The whole passage from which the last two extracts are taken is a laudation of faith, supported by numerous quotations of texts of Scripture in which the word amunah or amnah occurs. Both, like pistis, fides, and the English 'faith' itself, cover fidelity as well as confidence, and as in the famous case of Hab. 2, 4, 'The righteous man shall live by his faith,'7 the interpreter may be at a loss whether to say 'faith' or 'faithfulness.' The compiler in the Midrash (and very likely the authors) did not feel what to us seems an ambiguity. Be that as it may fidelity to God was in Jewish thought inseparable from confidence in God."
(7Gal. 3, 11; Romans 1,17; Hebrews 10,38. According to one opinion the single verse in which the substance of revelation is summed up. Makkot 24a, below. See above, p. 84.)
(7Gal. 3, 11; Romans 1,17; Hebrews 10,38. According to one opinion the single verse in which the substance of revelation is summed up. Makkot 24a, below. See above, p. 84.)
Judaism, Vol 2, Part VI, Chapter II, Faith, pg. 237 Hendrickson edition.