Where then is the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, 'If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

so then the faith is by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, 'I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

but what saith the divine answer to him? 'I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'