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By Christopher Zoukis

“Faith would be that God .... bound himself to time and its hazards and haps

as a man would lash himself to a tree for love.”

-- ANNIE DILLARD, HOLY THE FIRM

Faithfulness. A noun. The best synonym for it is probably ‘constant,’ to my mind anyway.

And the first thing we need to know is how the early church understood this word ‘faithfulness.’ Indeed, I would hazard that most of us would have a hard time defining faithfulness in modern terms, mu...