1 Timóteo 1
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1 Timóteo 1:4
Moreover, the commandment, "Do not bear a burden on the sabbath day," seems to me impossible. For by these words the Jewish teachers have fallen into "endless fables," as the apostle says, by saying that it is not reckoned a "burden" if someone has shoes without nails, but that it is a "burden" if someone has gallic shoes with nails. And if someone carries something on one shoulder, they judge it a "burden," but if he carries it on both shoulders, they will deny it is a burden. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 4.1.2
1 Timóteo 1:9
If they who are weak and incapable of the deeper mystery are edified by the letter, let them understand that if "anyone neglects the teachings of the Lord and lies to his neighbor over a deposit, or by a partnership, or by robbery, he is declared guilty of a great sin. But let this be absent from the church of God.… For I say boldly concerning you that "you did not so learn Christ" nor "were you so taught." Besides, the law itself does not teach these things to the saints and the faithful. Do you want to know that these are not said about the saints and the faithful? Hear the apostle when he distinguishes between them, "The law was not laid down for the just but for the unjust and for those not subject, for the wicked and the impure, for the father-killers and for the mother-killers," and for those similar to these. Because, therefore, for such men as this the apostle says, "the law was imposed," the church of God, having left behind the letter, is built up to greater holiness by the spirit, since heaven forbid that it would ever be polluted with such misdeeds. — HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 4.2
1 Timóteo 1:15
Moreover, Paul says in the epistle to Timothy, even though he himself had later become an apostle of Jesus, "this is a faithful saying, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." For some unknown reason he [Celsus] forgot or did not think of saying anything about Paul, who after Jesus established the churches in Christ.… Why then is it outrageous if Jesus, wanting to show mankind the extent of his ability to heal souls, chose infamous and most wicked men and led them on so far that they were an example of the purest moral character to those who were converted by them to the gospel of Christ? — AGAINST CELSUS 1.63