Whether fear is an effect of faith?

❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that fear is not an effect of faith. For an effect does not precede its cause. Now fear precedes faith: for it is written (Ecclus. 2:8): "Ye that fear the Lord, believe in Him." Therefore fear is not an effect of faith.

❌ Objection 2 : Further, the same thing is not the cause of contraries. Now fear and hope are contraries, as stated above (FS, Question [23], Article [2]): and faith begets hope, as a gloss observes on Mt. 1:2. Therefore fear is not an effect of faith.

❌ Objection 3 : Further, one contrary does not cause another. Now the object of faith is a good, which is the First Truth, while the object of fear is an evil, as stated above (FS, Question [42], Article [1]). Again, acts take their species from the object, according to what was stated above (FS, Question [18], Article [2]). Therefore faith is not a cause of fear.