19. But I ask what it is that they do not
believe; is it whether any one can be aided by the martyrs? This
is the same thing as not to believe Christ, for He Himself said:
“Ye shall do greater things than these.” S. John xiv. 12. How? By those martyrs whose
merits have been long efficacious, whose bodies were long since
found? Here I ask, do they bear a grudge against me, or against
the holy martyrs? If against me, are any miracles wrought by me?
by my means or in my name? Why, then, grudge me what is not
mine? If it be against the martyrs (for if they bear no grudge
against me, it can only be against them), they show that the martyrs
were of another faith than that which they believe. For otherwise
they would not have any feeling against their works, did they not judge
that they have not the faith which was in them, that faith established
by the tradition of our forefathers, which the devils themselves cannot
deny, but the Arians do.