1 Timóteo 4
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1 Timóteo 4:3
The Savior then commanded, "What God has joined together, let not man put asunder." But man wishes to put asunder what God has joined together. He does this when, "falling away from the sound faith, he gives heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron, and by forbidding" them not only to commit fornication but even "to marry." In this way he dissolves even those who before had been joined together by the providence of God. — COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 14.16
1 Timóteo 4:3
Do you still want me to show you what kind of fast it is appropriate for you to practice? Fast from every sin, take no food of malice, take no feasts of passion, do not burn with any wine of luxury. Fast from evil deeds, abstain from evil words, hold yourself from the worst evil thoughts. Do not touch the secret loaves of perverse doctrine. Do not desire the deceptive foods of philosophy which seduce you from truth. Such a fast pleases God. But "to abstain from the foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful" and to do this with those who crucified Christ cannot be acceptable to God.… However, we do not say this that we may loosen the restraints of Christian abstinence. — HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 10.2
1 Timóteo 4:7
Let the church of God, therefore, in this spiritual way understand the births, in this way receive the procreations, in this way uphold the deeds of the fathers with a fitting and honorable interpretation and in this way not disgrace the words of the Holy Spirit with foolish rabbinic fables but reckon them to be full of honor, full of virtue and usefulness. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 6.3
1 Timóteo 4:10
Our reply to this is that he attributes to us statements which we do not make. For we both read and know that God "loves everything that exists and hates nothing that he has made; for he would never have made anything if he had hated it." … He is also called "Savior of all men, especially of those who believe," and his Christ is "a propitiation for our sins, but not for ours only, but also for the whole world." … But now, according to our preaching, Jesus who is called the Christ of God by a certain traditional usage in the Bible has come on behalf of sinners in all places, that they may forsake their sin and entrust themselves to God. — AGAINST CELSUS 4.28
1 Timóteo 4:13
Now "every scribe who has been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like a man that is a householder who brings forth out of his treasury things new and old." Therefore, it clearly follows by "conversion of the proposition," as it is called, that every one who does not bring forth out of his treasury things new and old is not a scribe who has been made a disciple for the kingdom of heaven. We must endeavor, therefore, in every way to gather in our heart, "by giving heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching" and by "meditating in the law of the Lord day and night." We must observe not only the new oracles of the Gospels and of the apostles and their revelation but also the old things in the law "which has the shadow of the good things to come" and in the prophets who prophesied in accordance with them. — COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 10.15