Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Timothy 5:1

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 585, footnote 4 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

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

CCEL Footnote 1961 (In-Text, Margin)

... 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?” What these things are, has been told previously. Do we not read there: “Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father?”[1 Timothy 5:1] 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 ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth?” And in the same place: “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 588, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

Examples of the Various Styles Drawn from Scripture. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1978 (In-Text, Margin)

40. In the following words of the apostle we have the temperate style: “Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters.”[1 Timothy 5:1-2] And also in these: “I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is you reasonable service.” And almost the whole of this hortatory passage is in the temperate style of eloquence; and those parts of it are the most beautiful in which, as if paying what was due, things that belong to each other are ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 16, footnote 5 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great. (HTML)

Letters. (HTML)

To Anastasius, Bishop of Thessalonica. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 119 (In-Text, Margin)

... of Christ committed to you to healthy obedience. Because, although as a rule there exist among careless or slothful brethren things which demand a strong hand in rectifying them; yet the correction ought to be so applied as ever to keep love inviolate. Wherefore also it is that the blessed Apostle Paul, in instructing Timothy upon the ruling of the Church, says: “an elder rebuke not, but intreat him as a father: the young men as brethren: old women as mothers: young women as sisters in all purity[1 Timothy 5:1-2].” And if this moderation is due by the Apostle’s precept to all and any of the lower members, how much more is it to be paid without offence to our brethren and fellow-bishops? in order that although things sometimes happen which have to be ...