Commentary Par XXIV 46

A quarter of a century ago Alex Sheers, in a seminar at Princeton, suggested that the language here sounded Pauline.  See Ephesians 6:16: scutum fidei (the shield of faith); I Thessalonians 5:8: loricam fidei et caritatis (the breastplate of faith and love); I Timothy 6.12: certamen fidei (the good fight of faith).  And now, for a similar examination of some possible Pauline sources, see Aversano (Aver.2000.2), p. 110.