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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And, behold a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium." Great was the grace of Timothy. When Barnabas departed, he finds another, equivalent to him. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Remarkably, the Jews so neglected the law that they gave their daughters in marriage to Greeks and married Greek women.
Western Saints
Cassiodorus
"And when they had gone round these nations, he came to Derbe and Lystra." When Paul had gone round the above-mentioned nations, he came to Derbe and Lystra, and there found a certain Timothy, a disciple born of a Gentile father. Wishing to take him with him, he circumcised him in order subtly to cut short any uproar from the Jews. As he passed through the cities that he had intended, he delivered to them the Christian decrees that had been established by the rest of the apostles in Jerusalem. …
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