By faith the laws of marriage yoke together those who have lived as strangers:  and because of the faith in marriage contracts a stranger is made partner of a stranger’s person and possessions.  By faith husbandry also is sustained, for he who believes not that he shall receive a harvest endures not the toils.  By faith sea-faring men, trusting to the thinnest plank, exchange that most solid element, the land, for the restless motion of the waves, committing themselves to uncertain hopes, and carrying with them a faith more sure than any anchor.  By faith therefore most of men’s affairs are held together:  and not among us only has there been this belief, but also, as I have said, among those who are without By “aliens from the Church,” and “those who are without,” S. Cyril here means Pagans:  so Tertullian, de Idololatriâ, c. xiv.  But the latter term is applied to a Catechumen in Procatechesis. c. 12, and was also a common description of heretics:  see Tertullian, de Baptismo, c. xv..  For if they receive not the Scriptures, but bring forward certain doctrines of their own, even these they accept by faith.