1 Timothy 1:13 (WEB)
although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
Fathers and councils · 21
Augustine of Hippo
“So that if they be converted to the catholic faith, they console themselves, because they can say what the Apostle said: who when among other things he had said, “I was before a blasphemer; but,” saith he, “I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13
Read the whole comment“Doubtless it is a milder kind of false swearing, when a person does not know that thing to be false and believes it to be true, which he swears: like as also Saul blasphemed more excusably, because he did it ignorantly.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13
Read the whole comment“On what account dost thou return thanks, saying, “But I have obtained mercy”?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment“A certain man had done some, aye many evil things he had done; “Mercy,” he saith, “I obtained, because ignorant I did it in unbelief.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment““But mercy I have obtained, because ignorant I did it.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment““But mercy I have obtained.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment“Let us say nothing; himself rather let us hear: “I that before have been,” he saith, “a blasphemer, and persecutor; and injurious, but mercy I have obtained.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment““But therefore mercy,” he saith, “I obtained, because ignorant I did it in unbelief.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment“What is, “in Thy will”?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment“He needed mercy, and he has said that it was shown towards him: “I who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, that in me Christ Jesus might show forth all longsuffering towards those who shall believe in Him unto life eternal.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13, 16.
Read the whole comment“Hear how he cheereth us: “That in me,” he saith, “first, Christ Jesus might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13, 16.
Read the whole comment“Thou who hast once been a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, hast rewarded blasphemies.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment“But wherefore doth God melt the crystal?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment“…of this number can say, “I, who before was a blasphemer, and persecutor, and injurious, but I obtained mercy, in that I did in being ignorant, in unbelief.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13
Read the whole comment“Hearest thou not the Apostle saying, “Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief?”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment““Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained,” saith he, “mercy.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…hard for me to kick against the pricks: I know that I am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God; but I did it in ignorance: for I thought that the preaching of Christ was destruction of the Law, and knew not that He came Himself to fulfil the Law and not to destroy it.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
Read the whole comment““I, who was before a persecutor, now preach the glad tidings of the Resurrection.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For one who errs by simplicity may be pardoned, as the blessed Apostle Paul says of himself, “I who at first was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; yet obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13.
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John Chrysostom
“…friends, and the chiefest of them, having appointed him a herald and teacher of all the world, who had been “a blasphemer, and persecutor, and injurious.” ( 1 Tim. i. 13.)” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
““And I obtained mercy, because I did (so) ignorantly in unbelief.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 13, 16.
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Cross-references · 11
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Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 37.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 9.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 9.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 9.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 37.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 37.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 9.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 9.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 9.