580 GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHAP. XVII. AMBROSE. Or thisnumber isusedbecauseGod restedon the seventhday from His works. Afterthe seventhdayof the worldeverlastingrestispromisedus,thatas theevil worksofthatworldshallthen cease,soalsomay thesharp nessofpunishmentbe abated. 5. And the Apostlessaidunto the Lord,Increase our faith. 6. And the Lord said,Ifye had faithas a grain of mustard seed,ye might say unto thissycamine tree,Be thou pluckedup by the root,and be thou plantedinthesea;and itshouldobeyyou. THEOPHYL. The discipleshearingour Lord discoursingof certainarduousduties,suchaspoverty,and avoidingoffences, entreatHim to increasetheirfaith,thatso theymightbe ableto followpoverty,(fornothingso promptsto a lifeof povertyas faithand hope in the Lord,)and throughfaith to guardagainstgivingoffences.Thereforeitissaid,And Greg.22.theApostlessaiduntotheLord,Increaseourfaith. GREG.or.c.2i.^,hatis^thatthef^^ w|iicnnasalreadybeeareceivedinits beginning,mightgo on increasingmore and more unto per- Aug.de fection.AUG. We may indeedunderstandthattheyasked Ev.'lib.ii.fortheincreaseof thatfaithby which men believein the qu.89. thingswhich they see not; but thereis furthersignified a faithinthings,wherebynot withthewords only,but the thingsthemselvespresent,we believe.And thisshallbe, when theWisdom of God, by whom allthingswere made, shallrevealHimselfopenlyto His saintsfacetoface. THEOPHYL. But our Lord toldthem thattheyaskedwell, .andthattheyoughtto believestedfastly,forasmuchas faith coulddo many things; and henceitfollows,And theLord said,If ye had faithas a grainof mustardseed,fyc.Two mightyactsareherebroughttogetherinthesame sentence; the transplantingof thatwhich was rootedin the earth, and theplantingthereofinthesea,(forwhatiseverplanted in the waves?)by which two thingsHe declaresthepower offaith. Chrys. CaRYs. He mentionsthe mustardseed,because,though in°Matt.sma^ in s'ze,^ is mightierin power than allthe others.