Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Titus 2:1
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 585, footnote 9 (Image)
Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine
Human Directions Not to Be Despised, Though God Makes the True Teacher. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1966 (In-Text, Margin)
... rightly dividing the word of truth?” And in the same place: “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine.” And so in the Epistle to Titus, does he not say that a bishop ought to “hold fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers?” There, too, he says: “But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: that the aged men be sober,” and so on.[Titus 2:1-2] And there, too: “These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers,” and so on. What then are we to think? Does the apostle in any way contradict ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 6, footnote 5 (Image)
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons. (HTML)
On the Duties of the Clergy. (HTML)
Book I. (HTML)
Chapter X. What is seemly is often found in the sacred writings long before it appears in the books of the philosophers. Pythagoras borrowed the law of his silence from David. David's rule, however, is the best, for our first duty is to have due measure in speaking. (HTML)
30. We are instructed and taught that “what is seemly” is put in our Scriptures in the first place. (In Greek it is called πρέπον.) For we read: “A Hymn beseems Thee, O God, in Sion.” In Greek this is: Σοί πρέπει ὕμνος ὁ θεὸς ἐν Σιών. And the Apostle says: “Speak the things which become sound doctrine.”[Titus 2:1] And elsewhere: “For it beseemed Him through Whom are all things and for Whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”