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What is the role of faith in hope?

The answer

St. Clement of Alexandria says, “Hope, too, is based on faith … And hope is the expectation of the possession of good. Necessarily, then, is expectation founded on faith.”⁸⁰

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Notes

⁸⁰ St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies 2.6 (ANF 2:353).

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty, Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Volume 1, Books 1–3. First English Edition, 2023. Published by St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria, and Queen St. Mary & Prince Tadros Coptic Orthodox Church, South Brunswick, NJ. Copyright © 2023. Translation and Editing: Youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Arabian Gulf, and Egypt.