“God justifies by faith alone.”
The Latin says: “Deus ex sola fide justificat”
Jerome – In Epistolam Ad Romanos, Caput X, v. 3 (on Rom. 10:3)
“He who with all his spirit has placed his faith in Christ, even if he die in sin, shall by his faith live forever.”
The Latin says: “fide sua vivit in perpetuum”.
Jerome – Epistola CXIX, Ad Minervium et Alexandrum Monachos
“That those who were enemies, and sinners, neither justified by the law, nor by works, should immediately through faith alone be advanced to the highest favor. Upon this head accordingly Paul has discoursed at length in his Epistle to the Romans, and here again at length. ‘This is a faithful saying,’ he says, ‘and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.’ As the Jews were chiefly attracted by this, he persuades them not to give heed to the law, since they could not attain salvation by it without faith. Against this he contends; for it seemed to them incredible, that a man who had mis-spent all his former life in vain and wicked actions, should afterwards be saved by his faith alone. On this account he says, ‘It is a saying to be believed.’ But some not only disbelieved but even objected, as the Greeks do now. ‘Let us then do evil, that good may come.’ This was the consequence they drew in derision of our faith, from his words, ‘Where sin abounded grace did much more abound’.”
John Chrysostom (Golden Mouthed)– Homilies on First Timothy, Homily 4, 1 Timothy 1:15, 16
Didymus the Blind (c. 313-398) “A person is saved by grace, not by works but by faith. There should be no doubt but that faith saves and then lives by doing its own works, so that the works which are added to salvation by faith are not those of the law but a different kind of thing altogether.”[31]
Didymus the Blind. Commentary on James, 2:26b.