Bellarmine: Faith Is The Way To Understand

St. Robert Bellarmine, De Justificatione, Book 1, Chap. 7: “It is established, therefore, that faith is not knowledge but assent.  For in the first place Isaiah chapter 7 openly proclaims: Unless you believe, you will not understand.  There we see that faith is not understanding but the way and step to understand… Likewise in 1 Cor. 13 the Apostle distinguishes the knowledge of mysteries from faith as two diverse gifts.  ‘If I shall have’, he says, ‘all knowledge and I should know all mysteries, and all faith’ [1 Cor. 13:2].”