Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Timothy 4:11

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 585, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

Human Directions Not to Be Despised, Though God Makes the True Teacher. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1960 (In-Text, Margin)

... makes them teachers, he may as well say that we need not pray, since our Lord says, “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask Him;” or that the Apostle Paul should not have given directions to Timothy and Titus as to how or what they should teach others. And these three apostolic epistles ought to be constantly before the eyes of every one who has obtained the position of a teacher in the Church. In the First Epistle to Timothy do we not read: “These things command and teach?”[1 Timothy 4:11] What these things are, has been told previously. Do we not read there: “Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father?” Is it not said in the Second Epistle: “Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me?” And is he not be ...