1 Timothy 1:19 (WEB)
holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
Catechism · 1
“By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Tim 1:18-19
Fathers and councils · 9
Ambrose of Milan
“…the waves of her unhallowed strait, amid the wreckage of their faith, she, girt with beastly monsters, rends with the cruel fang of her blasphemous doctrine.” — editor's note: For Scylla and Charybdis, see Homer, Odyss. XI.; Virgil, Æn. III. 424 f. The strait, bestrewed with wreckage of the faith (1 Tim. i. 19) corresponds to the…
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…shipwreck of faith,’ scoffed at the mystery of the resurrection, he immediately proceeded to say, ‘And as I have delivered to you traditions, hold them fast.’” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 19; 2 Tim. ii. 18; 1 Cor. xi. 2
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John Chrysostom
“…they who use their own reasonings, before they have learnt anything, suffer shipwreck; as also Paul saith, “Who concerning faith have made shipwreck.” ( 1 Tim. i. 19.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Phygellus and Alexander made shipwreck; but the rest continued to run the race of faith.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 19, 20; 2 Tim. i. 15.
Read the whole comment“For I hear that certain of those who have made shipwreck have come also to the West, and that, not content with their own destruction, they desire to involve others in death with them; as if they thought that the…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 19.
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Tertullian
“If we think over the rest of faults, tracing them from their generations, let us begin with covetousness, “a root of all evils,” wherewith, indeed, some having been ensnared, “have suffered shipwreck about faith.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 19.
Read the whole comment“…given to Satan, under a hope of pardon, men already sunken from the faith into blasphemy; whence, too, he pronounced them “shipwrecked with regard to faith,” having no longer the solace of the ship, the Church.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 19.
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Basil the Great
“We see, as it were, whole churches, crews and all, dashed and shattered upon the sunken reefs of disingenuous heresy, while others of the enemies of the Spirit of Salvation have seized the helm and made shipwreck of the faith.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 19.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…thee, that thou by them mightest war the good warfare; holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck,” because they defiled by unbelief the conscience that comes from God.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 18, 19.
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Cross-references · 25
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.7.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 11.
Cited together in Letters Letter 91.
Cited together in Letters Letter 91.
Cited together in Letters Letter 91.
Cited together in Letters Letter 91.
Cited together in Letters Letter 91.
Cited together in Letters Letter 91.
Cited together in Letters Letter 91.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.7.