3.  Nor is it only among us, who bear the name of Christ, that the dignity of faith is great It was a common objection of Pagan philosophers that the Christian religion was not founded upon reason but only on faith. Cyril’s answer that faith is necessary in the ordinary affairs of life is the same which Origen had employed against Celsus (I. 11):  “Why should it not be more reasonable, since all human affairs are dependent upon faith, to believe God rather than men?  For who takes a voyage, or marries, or begets children, or casts seeds into the ground, without believing that better things will result, although the contrary might and sometimes does happen?”  See also Arnobius, adversus Gentes, II. 8; and Hooker’s allusion to the scornful reproach of Julian the Apostate, “The highest point of your wisdom is believe” (Eccles. Pol. V. lxiii. 1.).:  but likewise all things that are accomplished in the world, even by those who are aliens 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. from the Church, are accomplished by faith.