Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Titus 1:3

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 237, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

City of God (HTML)

Of the creation of angels and men, and of the origin of evil. (HTML)

How We are to Understand God’s Promise of Life Eternal, Which Was Uttered Before the ‘Eternal Times.’ (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 553 (In-Text, Margin)

I own that I do not know what ages passed before the human race was created, yet I have no doubt that no created thing is co-eternal with the Creator. But even the apostle speaks of time as eternal, and this with reference, not to the future, but, which is more surprising, to the past. For he says, “In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before the eternal times, but hath in due times manifested His word.”[Titus 1:2-3] You see he says that in the past there have been eternal times, which, however, were not co-eternal with God. And since God before these eternal times not only existed, but also, “promised” life eternal, which He manifested in its own times (that is to say, in due times), what else ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 41, footnote 1 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

De Spiritu Sancto. (HTML)

Of the origin of the word “with,” and what force it has.  Also concerning the unwritten laws of the church. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1269 (In-Text, Margin)

66. Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church[Titus 1:3] some we possess derived from written teaching; others we have received delivered to us “in a mystery” by the tradition of the apostles; and both of these in relation to true religion have the same force. And these no one will gainsay;—no one, at all events, who is even moderately versed in the institutions of the Church. For were we to attempt to reject such customs as have no written authority, on the ground that the importance they ...