{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1640","native_reference":{"book_number":610,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>Jerome</b>: Let your breath never smell of wine, lest the philosopher's words be said to you, \"Instead of offering me a kiss, you are giving me a taste of wine.\" Priests given to wine are both condemned by the apostle and forbidden by the old law.… Whatever intoxicates and disturbs the balance of the mind, avoid as you would wine. I do not say that we are to condemn what is a creature of God. The Lord himself was called a \"wine-bibber,\" and wine in moderation was allowed to Timothy because of his weak stomach. I only require that drinkers should observe that limit which their age, their health or their constitution requires.<br/><i>— LETTERS 52.11</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Not given to wine\": here he does not so much mean intemperate, as insolent and impudent. \"No striker\": this too does not mean a striker with the hands. What means then \"no striker\"? Because there are some who unseasonably smite the consciences of their brethren, it seems to be said with reference to them. \"Not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient: not a brawler, not covetous;\" ... But why does he say, speaking of a Bishop, that he should be \"not given to wine, hospitable,\" when he should name greater things? Why said he not that he should be an Angel, not subject to human passions? Where are those great qualities of which Christ speaks, which even those under their rule ought to possess? To be crucified to the world, to be always ready to lay down their lives, as Christ said. \"The good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep\" (John x. 11); and again, \"He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.\" (Matt. x. 38) But \"not given to wine,\" he says; a good prospect indeed, if such are the things of which a Bishop is to be admonished! Why has he not said that he ought to be already raised above the world? But dost thou demand less of the Bishop, than even of those in the world? For to these he saith, \"Mortify your members which are upon the earth\" (Col. iii. 5), and \"He that is dead, is freed from sin.\" (Rom. vi. 7) \"They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh\"; and Christ again says, \"Whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath, he is not worthy of Me.\" (Luke xv. 33) Why are not these things required by Paul? Plainly because few could be found of such a character, and there was need of many Bishops, that one might preside in every city.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Timothy 10</i></p><p><b>Pelagius</b>: This could range widely in meaning from not delivering blows to the point of death to not striking the consciences of the weak with a bad example.<br/><i>— PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST LETTER TO TIMOTHY</i></p><p><b>Pseudo-Clement</b>: Beloved brethren! That a man should build up and establish the brethren on the faith in one God, this also is manifest and well-known. This too, again, is comely, that a man should not be envious of his neighbour. And moreover, again, it is suitable and comely that all those who work the works of the Lord should work the works of the Lord in the fear of God. Thus is it required of them to conduct themselves. That \"the harvest is great, but the workmen are few,\" this also is well-known and manifest. Let us, therefore, \"ask of the Lord of the harvest\" that He would send forth workmen into the harvest; [Matthew 9:37-38] such workmen as \"shall skilfully dispense the word of truth;\" workmen \"who shall not be ashamed;\" faithful workmen; workmen who shall be \"the light of the world;\" [Matthew 5:14] workmen who \"work not for the food that perishes, but for that food which abides unto life eternal;\" [John 6:27] workmen who shall be such as the apostles; workmen who imitate the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit; who are concerned for the salvation of men; not \"hireling\" [John 10:12-13] workmen; not workmen to whom the fear of God and righteousness appear to be gain; not workmen who \"serve their belly;\" not workmen who \"with fair speeches and pleasant words mislead the hearts of the innocent;\" [Romans 16:18] not workmen who imitate the children of light, while they are not light but darkness — \"men whose end is destruction;\" [Philippians 3:9] not workmen who practise iniquity and wickedness and fraud; not \"crafty workmen;\" [2 Corinthians 11:13] not workmen \"drunken\" and \"faithless;\" nor workmen who traffic in Christ; not misleaders; not \"lovers of money; not malevolent.\" [1 Timothy 3:3; Titus 1:7] Let us, therefore, contemplate and imitate the faithful who have conducted themselves well in the Lord, as is becoming and suitable to our calling and profession. Thus let us do service before God in justice and righteousness, and without blemish, \"occupying ourselves with things good and comely before God and also before men.\" [Romans 12:17] For this is comely, that God be glorified in us in all things.<br/><i>— Two Epistles on Virginity</i></p><p><b>Theodore of Mopsuestia</b>: Not striking without reasonable cause, for sometimes this is permitted, if for a good reason and not with undue fierceness.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"123955612d2fc2cf39f01b757402979b6a873c5dd066112b8d1252c8d42d977d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1640,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"8ef6b16ec68aa02d0a46166beef3997461349d8c7419fadea1890c0f4bde1902","translator":null,"work":null}