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Doctrine S23

See S23 reasoning.

S23 S1: Stromata II.2

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02102.htm (public-domain English translation)
• Text: “templation of such themes, while unbelief respecting what was to be learned struggled within? But faith, which the Greeks disparage, deeming it futile and barbarous, is a voluntary preconception, the assent of piety— the subject of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, according to the divine apostle.”
• Context: Faith defined as voluntary assent.
• Bears on: S23.1
• Status: verified (English)