for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected.

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.

But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put them forth by another way?

Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;