{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2410","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>Apostolic Constitutions</b>: Of the churches of Galatia, Crescens.<br/><i>— CONSTITUTIONS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: As Luke was present at all these occurrences, he carefully noted them down in writing, so that he cannot be convicted of falsehood or boastfulness, because all these [particulars] proved both that he was senior to all those who now teach otherwise, and that he was not ignorant of the truth. That he was not merely a follower, but also a fellow-labourer of the apostles, but especially of Paul, Paul has himself declared also in the Epistles, saying: \"Demas hath forsaken me, ... and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me.\" From this he shows that he was always attached to and inseparable from him. And again he says, in the Epistle to the Colossians: \"Luke, the beloved physician, greets you.\" But surely if Luke, who always preached in company with Paul, and is called by him \"the beloved,\" and with him performed the work of an evangelist, and was entrusted to hand down to us a Gospel, learned nothing different from him (Paul), as has been pointed out from his words, how can these men, who were never attached to Paul, boast that they have learned hidden and unspeakable mysteries?<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book 3</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world.\" He does not say, \"That I may see thee before I depart this life,\" which would have grieved him, but \"because I am alone,\" he says, \"and have no one to help or support me.\" \"For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed to Thessalonica\"; that is, having loved his own ease and security from danger, he has chosen rather to live luxuriously at home, than to suffer hardships with me, and share my present danger. He has blamed him alone, not for the sake of blaming him, but to confirm us, that we may not be effeminate in declining toils and dangers, for this is, \"having loved this present world.\" At the same time he wishes to draw his disciple to him. \"Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.\" These he does not censure. For Titus was one of the most admirable men, so that to him he intrusted the affairs of the island, no small island, I mean, but that great one of Crete.<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 10</i></p><p><b>John Damascene</b>: He does not find fault with them; for they were sent for preaching.</p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present age, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministry.</p><p>having loved this present age. Having become safe and secure, as he thought. For Demas preferred to indulge in luxury at home rather than suffer hardships with me. But Paul does not want to slander this man, rather to support us so that we do not become weak.</p><p>Crescens to Galatia. They had left of their own accord, therefore he does not say, \"The rest.\" Moreover, Titus was among the distinguished to whom the bishopric of Crete had been entrusted.</p><p>Only Luke is with me. This Luke is the one who wrote the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. And since he was eager to learn, holy and committed, he was never separated from Paul.</p><p>Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me. Paul said, \"Not for my comfort, but for the ministry of the Gospel.\" Indeed, Paul also called Timothy for this reason, so that after his death the brothers might be comforted.</p><p>for ministry. Of the Gospel, Paul says.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p><p><b>Polycarp of Smyrna</b>: I exhort you all, therefore, to yield obedience to the word of righteousness, and to exercise all patience, such as ye have seen [set] before your eyes, not only in the case of the blessed Ignatius, and Zosimus, and Rufus, but also in others among yourselves, and in Paul himself, and the rest of the apostles. [This do] in the assurance that all these have not run in vain, but in faith and righteousness, and that they are [now] in their due place in the presence of the Lord, with whom also they suffered. For they loved not this present world, but Him who died for us, and for our sakes was raised again by God from the dead.<br/><i>— Epistle to the Philippians 9</i></p><p><b>Theodore of Mopsuestia</b>: He calls \"Galatia\" what we now call Gaul; for so all of the older peoples called this place, as anyone can recognize from many sources, especially from the Jewish history written by Josephus. For those people who are now called Galatians are so designated in the old narratives that trace their movement from those regions to various places.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"96e210a7369b86eb1c437e1c4a6ad61637ef70ef6d20404c415b47a70e5c4246","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2410,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d3a090b3feb24f23b73a0a7c376bda8a872e3f3875793d40a1774b9ba88c85d6","translator":null,"work":null}