S. Chrysostom
(Hom. xxix. in 1 Cor. xii. 9, 10) in like manner distinguishes dogmatic
faith from the faith which is “the mother of
miracles.” The former S. Cyril calls our own, not meaning
that God’s help is not needed for it, but because, as he has
shewn in § 10, it consists in the mind’s assent, and
voluntary approval of the doctrines set before it: but the latter
is a pure gift of grace working in man without his own help.
Compare Apostolic Constitutions, VIII. c. 1.