Now peace implies these two things, namely, that we be not disturbed by external things, and that our desires rest altogether in one object. In evil things the mind has a good disposition, in respect of two things. Thirdly, as to his suffering with equanimity the evils his neighbor inflicts on him. Fourthly, in the point of our refraining from doing harm to our neighbor not only through anger, but also through fraud or deceit. But if we take it for the faith whereby we believe in God, then man is directed thereby to that which is above him, so that he subject his intellect and, consequently, all that is his, to God.
Sanctification is effected by all the virtues, by which also sins are taken away.
Consequently fruit is mentioned there in the singular, on account of its being generically one, though divided into many species which are spoken of as so many fruits. The hundredfold, sixtyfold, and thirtyfold fruits do not differ as various species of virtuous acts, but as various degrees of perfection, even in the same virtue. Hence either more or fewer fruits might have been mentioned. Nevertheless, all the acts of the gifts and virtues can be reduced to these by a certain kind of fittingness, in so far as all the virtues and gifts must needs direct the mind in one of the above-mentioned ways. Wherefore the acts of wisdom and of any gifts directing to good, are reduced to charity, joy and peace.