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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust." Let it not suffer diminution. It is not thy own. Thou art intrusted with the property of another, do not lessen it. "Avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called." Well did he thus call it. For where there is not faith, there is not knowledge; when anything springs from our reasonings, it is not knowledge. Or perhaps he says this, because some then assumed the name of Gnostics, as knowing more than others.
Cyril of Jerusalem
I have many other testimonies from holy Scripture to the fact that the kingdom of Christ endures throughout all ages. But I will content myself with what I have said, because the day wears on. And do you, my hearers, worship him alone as king, and flee every misguided heresy.… Flee the false Christ, and look for the true. You have been taught the way to be among those on his right hand at the judgment. Retain "that which is committed to you" concerning Christ, and be adorned with good works. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Keep all that I have commanded you, for these are the commandments of the Lord; take nothing away from them. Namely, impure and filthy ones. Consequently, there exists empty talk that is not foul. Saint John Chrysostom understands by this word novelties of teaching – κενοφωνίας – having written, it seems, this word with the diphthong αι (καινοφωνίας). For where there is no faith, but everything is the fruit of human reasoning, there is no knowledge, and the name is falsely applied. …
Western Saints
Jerome
The apostle labors, and, although he has lived blameless, according to the justice that is from the law, he counts everything as worthless for Christ, that he may be found in Christ, not having his own justice which is from the law but that which is from the faith of Christ, from God.… Therefore, we are saved, not by the power of the free will but by the mercy of God. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, O Timothy, he instructs Timothy: first, that he guard the good; second, that he avoid evil, at avoiding the profane novelties. He says, therefore: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust. To man's care is committed every good which he has; and it has been committed to him by God to guard and increase: he shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye (Sir 17:18); By the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace in me has not been void, but I have labored more abundantly; yet not I, but the …
Hippolytus of Rome
A lengthened conflict, then, having been maintained concerning all heresies by us who, at all events, have not left any unrefuted, the greatest struggle now remains behind, viz., to furnish an account and refutation of those heresies that have sprung up in our own day, by which certain ignorant and presumptuous men have attempted to scatter abroad the Church, and have introduced the greatest confusion among all the faithful throughout the entire world. …
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