Annotatio CC
”I believed, for which cause I have spoken.” — Psalm 115:1
Chrysostom, expounding these things, seems to establish that the divine vocation is from the dignity and merits of those who have made themselves worthy to be called.1 For he says: “If the Father draws, the Son leads, the Spirit illumines: how do they sin who are neither drawn, nor led, nor illumined? Because they do not offer themselves worthy to receive that illumination. See, therefore, that this happened to Cornelius:2 for he did not find this at home within himself, but God called him, because he himself, anticipating [prevening], rendered himself worthy. For although it is [God’s part] to draw and to lead in, yet he requires a soul that will comply, and then applies his aid.” Wherefore Paul elsewhere says, “called according to purpose.”3 The sense of these words [thou hast] in Annotation 251 of the sixth book.