1 Timóteo 1
Athanasius of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
1 Timóteo 1:4
In this passage we note the novelty as well as the viciousness of their devices, and how they go beyond all other heresies. They support their madness by seductive arguments calculated to deceive the simple. The Greeks, as the apostle has said, make their attack with excellency and persuasiveness of speech and with fallacies that have the aura of plausibility. The Jews, departing widely from the divine Scriptures, now, as the apostle again has said, contend about "fables and endless genealogies." Meanwhile the Manichaeans and Valentinians with them, and others, corrupt the divine Scriptures, putting forth fables of their own invention. But the Arians are bolder than them all and have shown that the other heresies are but their younger sisters, whom, as I have said, they surpass in impiety, emulating them all, and especially the Jews, in their circumventions. — HISTORY OF THE ARIANS 8.66
1 Timóteo 1:7
It is encouraging to the faithful but distressing to the heretical to see these heresies overthrown. Moreover, their further question, "whether the Unoriginated be one or two," shows how false are their views, how treacherous and full of guile. It is not for the Father's honor that they say this but for the dishonor of the Word. Accordingly, if any one should answer, unaware of their craft, that "the Unoriginated is one," they immediately spurt out their own venom, saying, " 'Therefore the Son is among things originated,' and well have we said, 'He was not before his generation.' " This in turn elicits all sorts of disturbances and confusions, separating the Son from the Father and reckoning the Framer of all among his works. Now first they may be convicted on this score, that, while blaming the Nicene bishops for their use of phrases not in Scripture, though these are not injurious but subversive of their irreligion, they themselves went off upon the same fault, that is, using words not in Scripture, and those that show contempt for the Lord, being "without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions." — Discourses Against the Arians 1.9.30
1 Timóteo 1:15
What the apostles received, they passed on without change, so that the doctrine of the mysteries (the sacraments) and Christ would remain correct. The divine Word—the Son of God—wants us to be their (the apostles') disciples. It is appropriate for them to be our teachers, and it is necessary for us to submit to their teaching alone. Only from them and from those who have faithfully taught their doctrine do we get, as Paul writes, "faithful words, worthy of complete acceptance." With them we are back to ground level, because they did not become disciples as a result of what they heard from others. Rather, they were eyewitnesses and servants of God the Word, and they handed down what they heard directly from him. — Letter 2, Section 7
1 Timóteo 1:19
But the sectarians, who have fallen away from the teaching of the church and made shipwreck concerning the faith, wrongly think that evil has some sort of eternal existence. They arbitrarily imagine another god besides the true One, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. They fantasize that he is the unmade producer of evil and the head of wickedness, who is also artificer of creation. These men one can easily refute, not only from the divine Scriptures but also from the human understanding itself, the very source of these insane imaginations. — Against the Heathen 6.3
1 Timóteo 1:20
When one knows properly these timely points, his understanding of the faith is right and healthy. But if he mistakes any such points, he quickly falls into heresy. Thus Hymenaeus and Alexander and their fellows were untimely when they said that the resurrection had already been. The Galatians were untimely in the other direction in making much of circumcision now. — Discourses Against the Arians 1.54.2