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It appears to me possibly to be a veiled reference to Romans 10:17:

"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."

Terrill
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Cecil T Ault wrote:

> I am writing an article on  "Simultan," a short story by the
> Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. The  protagonist, a simultaneous
> translator, picks up a Bible (Il Vangelo) in a hotel  room in Maratea,
> Italy, and finds a Bible verse that she is unable to translate:   "Il
> miracolo, como sempre, e il risultato della fede e d'una fede audace."
>   Bachmann is well known for using citations to reveal an entirely
> different facet  of her stories than is apparent on their surface, so
> I am trying to determine  the source of this Bible verse--but it does
> not appear in the versions of the  Italian Bible I've been able to
> access on the web.
>
> Thanks.  yrs, tom ault

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