{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1691","native_reference":{"book_number":610,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Therefore Cyprian and all those bishops were partakers in the sins of other men, inasmuch as they remained in communion with such men, when they removed no one from the right of communion who entertained a different opinion. Where, then, is the Church, which, according to these words must be held to have perished from that very moment by the contagion of their sins? But if, as is the most firmly established truth, the Church both has remained and does remain, the partaking of the sins of others, which is forbidden by the apostle, must be considered only to consist in consenting to them.<br/><i>— ON BAPTISM, AGAINST THE DONATISTS 7.5.9</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The apostle writes to Timothy: \"Practice self-control.\" It's a command; it's an order; it has to be listened to; it has to be carried out. But unless God comes to our help, we get stuck. We try, indeed, to do it by willpower, and the will makes some effort. It shouldn't, though, rely on its ability unless it is assisted in its debility.<br/><i>— SERMONS 348A.4</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: But I hear that some infect your number, and destroy the praise of a distinguished name by their corrupt conversation; whom you yourselves, even as being lovers and guardians of your own praise, should rebuke and check and correct. For what a disgrace is suffered by your name, when one spends his days in intoxication and debauchery, another returns to that country whence he was banished, to perish when arrested, not now as being a Christian, but as being a criminal!<br/><i>— Epistle VI</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And Paul again, when showing this very thing to the same Timothy wrote and says, \"Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins.\" What dost thou say? Has another sinned, and do I share his blame and his punishment? Yes, says he, the man who authorizes evil; and just as in the case of any one entrusting into the hands of a raging and insane person a sharply pointed sword, with which the madman commits murder, that man who gave the sword incurs the blame; so any one who gives the authority which arises from this office to a man living in evil, draws down on his own head all the fire of that man's sins and audacity. For he who provides the root, this man is the cause of all that springs from it on every side.<br/><i>— Eulogy on Saint Ignatius</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Lay hands,\" he says, \"suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins.\" What is \"suddenly\"? Not upon a first, nor a second, nor a third trial, but after frequent and strict examination and circumspection. For it is an affair of no common peril. For thou wilt be responsible for the sins committed by him, as well his past as his future sins, because thou hast delegated to him this power. For if thou overlook the past unduly, thou art answerable for the future also, as being the cause of them, by placing him in that station, and of the past too, for not leaving him to mourn over them, and to be in compunction. For as thou art a partaker of his good actions, so art thou of his sins.</p><p>\"Keep thyself pure.\" This he says with reference to chastity.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Timothy 16</i></p><p><b>Leo the Great</b>: For the peace and order of the Lord's whole household will be shaken, if what is required in the body be not found in the head. Where is that precept of the blessed Apostle Paul uttered through the Spirit of God, whereby in the person of Timothy the whole number of Christ's priests are instructed, and to each one of us is said: \"Lay hands hastily on no one, and do not share in other men's sins?\" What is to lay on hands hastily but to confer the priestly dignity on unproved men before the proper age, before there has been time to test them, before they have deserved it by their obedience, before they have been tried by discipline? And what is to share in other men's sins but for the ordainer to become such as is he who ought not to have been ordained by him?<br/><i>— LETTERS 12.2</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Do not quickly lay hands on anyone, nor share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.</p><p>And Paul discusses the matter of selecting for ordinations. For he wrote to a bishop. And he says, do not quickly, for example, not from the first or second thoughts, but after examining many times and thoroughly.</p><p>nor share in the sins of others. That is, appointing a bishop that is unworthy of the people.</p><p>Keep yourself pure. Paul commands Timothy concerning self-control. But if a man so exhausts himself with fasting and drinking water that he even falls ill from it, what ought we to do, or how should we observe this?<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY</i></p><p><b>Phileas of Thmuis</b>: And the man who put on Christ, who is the Christ of all of us no less; for he, in writing to his dearly-beloved son Timothy, says: \"Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins.\"</p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Baptism is not rashly to be administered.… Similarly, this precept is rather to be looked at carefully.… \"Lay not hands easily on any; share not other men's sins.\"<br/><i>— ON BAPTISM 18</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: On the contrary, this precept is rather to be looked at carefully: \"Give not the holy thing to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine; \" and, \"Lay not hands easily on any; share not other men's sins.\" If Philip so \"easily\" baptized the chamberlain, let us reflect that a manifest and conspicuous evidence that the Lord deemed him worthy had been interposed.<br/><i>— On Baptism</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Again to Timotheus: \"Lay hands on no one hastily, nor communicate with others' sins.\" Again to the Ephesians: \"Be not, then, partners with them: for ye were at one time darkness.<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d8c09404061ff1fdabd104fc4938344e9d1524823475c17b919296cd38e6872f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1691,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"760effff83f18a3d0c2a7340a37467078f4a22e3bd441255d13e47195b556d04","translator":null,"work":null}