Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Titus 2:5

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 69, footnote 19 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Ignatius (HTML)

Epistle to the Trallians: Shorter and Longer Versions (HTML)

Chapter VIII.—Be on your guard against the snares of the devil. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 785 (In-Text, Margin)

... of His love, wherewith He loved us when He gave Himself a ransom for us, that He might cleanse us by His blood from our old ungodliness, and bestow life on us when we were almost on the point of perishing through the depravity that was in us. Let no one of you, therefore, cherish any grudge against his neighbour. For says our Lord, “Forgive, and it shall be forgiven unto you.” Give no occasion to the Gentiles, lest “by means of a few foolish men the word and doctrine [of Christ] be blasphemed.”[Titus 2:5] For says the prophet, as in the person of God, “Woe to him by whom my name is blasphemed among the Gentiles.”

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 432, footnote 1 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Alexandria (HTML)

The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)

Book IV. (HTML)
Chapter XX.—A Good Wife. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2868 (In-Text, Margin)

... leader and guide of all her actions, reckoning sobriety and righteousness her work, and making the favour of God her end. Gracefully, therefore, the apostle says in the Epistle to Titus, “that the elder women should be of godly behaviour, should not be slanderers, not enslaved to much wine; that they should counsel the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, discreet, chaste, housekeepers, good, subject to their own husbands; that the word of God be not blasphemed.”[Titus 2:3-5] But rather, he says, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently, lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel surrendered his birth-right; and lest any root of ...

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