1 Timothy 1:3 (WEB)
As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
Catechism · 1
“"Pure in heart" refers to those who have attuned their intellects and wills to the demands of God's holiness, chiefly in three areas: charity; chastity or sexual rectitude; love of truth and orthodoxy of faith.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Titus 1:15; 1 Tim 1:3-4; 2 Tim 2:23-26.
Fathers and councils · 3
Basil the Great
“If you judge them to be of no importance, forgive me for declining to be of the leaven of the teachers of wrong doctrine.” — editor's note: τῶν ἑτεροδιδασκαλούντων. cf. 1 Tim. i. 3. The Ben. note compares Greg., Orat. xii. 203.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Such and so great is the patience of Christ; and had it not been such and so great, the Church would never have possessed Paul as an apostle.” — editor's note: [1 Tim. i. 3. A striking suggestion, put in our author’s terse way.]
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…doctrine, neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, the which minister questionings, rather than the edification of God which is in faith.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 3, 4.
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