Isagoge in canonicas septem epistolas, qua (ut in Paulinis) compositionis oeconomia, et germana dispositio monstratur

faith he cites Moses, and shows that Abraham’s faith was illustrated by his works. This sentiment the Apostle Paul would undoubtedly have approved as well, since he himself wishes faith to be industrious, and never approves of an empty shadow of faith.

2 In the second place, they say that he never, or at least rarely, speaks of Christ, a name that occurs more frequently than any other in the mouths of the other Apostles. We answer that he testifies enough to how much he defers to Christ since he begins from Him. Furthermore, since he was about to correct the morals of those who poorly expressed the doctrine of Christ, he needed to be more frequent in correcting vices and urging good works than in discussing faith, since it was already established for Christians what ought to be believed, but not equally how one ought to live; or if this was also established, there were few who in life and morals