1 Timothy 2:5 (WEB)
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Catechism · 4
In the Old Testament
“Once the promise begins to be fulfilled (Passover, the Exodus, the gift of the Law, and the ratification of the covenant), the prayer of Moses becomes the most striking example of intercessory prayer, which will be fulfilled in "the one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Tim 2:5.
In the Age of the Church
“He is the one intercessor with the Father on behalf of all men, especially sinners.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 8:34; 1 Jn 2:1; 1 Tim 2:5-8.
Jesus Died Crucified
“The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the "one mediator between God and men".” — Catechism footnote: 1 Tim 2:5.
The Communion of Saints
“So by their fraternal concern is our weakness greatly helped."” — Catechism footnote: LG 49; cf. 1 Tim 2:5.
Fathers and councils · 54
Gregory of Nyssa
“For this cause the mediator between God and man having assumed the first-fruits of all human nature, sends to His brethren the announcement of Himself not in His divine character, but in that which He shares…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Tim. ii. 5
Read the whole comment“…doctrines, He is the mediator between God and man, declaring it by this saying, “There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus;” where by the distinction implied in the word “mediator” he reveals to us the whole aim of the mystery of godliness.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Tim. ii. 5
Read the whole comment“For nothing so clearly points to Him Who is the “mediator between God and man” (as the great Apostle called Him), as the name of “Son,” equally applicable to either nature, Divine or Human.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…the Cross with the imperishable nature, he gives in other words a fairly distinct correction of such an error, when he calls Him “mediator between God and men” and “man,” and “God,” that, from the fact that both are predicated of the one Being, the fit conception might be entertained concerning each Nature—concerning…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And therefore in the last times the Lord has restored us into friendship through His incarnation, having become “the Mediator between God and men;” propitiating indeed for us the Father against whom we had sinned, and cancelling (consolatus) our disobedience by His own obedience; conferring also upon us…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Tertullian
“In like manner, again, the apostle calls Him “the Mediator between God and Men,” and so affirmed His participation of both substances.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle Paul likewise says: “The man Christ Jesus is the one Mediator between God and man.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Designated, as He is, “the Mediator between God and man,” He keeps in His own self the deposit of the flesh which has been committed to Him by both parties—the pledge and security of its entire perfection.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5. Tertullian’s word is “sequester,” the guardian of a deposit.
Read the whole comment“Wherever it may be, it is in safe keeping in God’s presence, through that most faithful “Mediator between God and man, (the man) Jesus Christ,” who shall reconcile both God to man, and man to God; the spirit to the flesh, and the flesh to the spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…I sought a way of acquiring strength sufficient to enjoy Thee; but I found it not until I embraced that “Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus,” “who is over all, God blessed for ever,” calling unto me, and saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” and mingling that food which I was unable to…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…out to the humble, and didst send, that by His example also they might learn the same humility—that “Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” appeared between mortal sinners and the immortal Just One—mortal with men, just with God; that because the reward of righteousness is life and peace, He might,…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…is better than life,” behold, my life is but a distraction, and Thy right hand upheld me in my Lord, the Son of man, the Mediator between Thee, The One, and us the many,—in many distractions amid many things,—that through Him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended, and may be recollected from…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Lest you should think “the Man Christ” to be any ordinary man, he says, “Fairer than the children of men.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“So always, or nearly always, let us hear the words of Christ from the Psalm, as that we look not only upon that Head, the one mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus.…But let us think of Christ, Head and whole Body, a sort of entire Man.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“David the king was one man, but not one man he figured; sometimes to wit he figured the Church of many men consisting, extended even unto the ends of the earth: but sometimes One Man he figured, Him he figured that is Mediator of God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment““For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead,” not in a shadow, as in the temple made by king Solomon, but “bodily,” that is, solidly and truly.…“For there is One God, and One Mediator of God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,” Mountain of mountains, as Saint of saints.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“For no man was ever reconciled unto God outside of that faith which is in Christ Jesus, either before His Incarnation, or after: as it is most truly defined by the Apostle: “For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…Lord, who came in the Lord’s Name, whom the builders refused, and who became the head Stone of the corner, that “Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ,” is God, He is equal with the Father, He hath showed us light, that we might understand what we believed, and declare it to you who understand it not as yet,…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“But this sense is a solitary one; for it cannot be divinely spoken of any of the saints, nor in any wise lawfully said of any, “The Word was made flesh,” save of the “one Mediator between God and men.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“And this was done with the purpose that there might be a mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, to make intercession for us.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Accordingly, Christ was named the Mediator between God and men, who stood between the immortal God and mortal man, as being Himself both God and man, who reconciled man to God, who continued to be what He (formerly) was, but was made also what He (formerly) was not.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…appearing in the flesh, and coming forth in a certain manner out of the womb of His secrecy, before the eyes of men as Man, the Mediator between God and men, “who is over all, God blessed for ever,” sent before Him, in the person of the holy patriarchs and prophets, a certain portion of His body, wherewith, as by a…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5
Read the whole comment“…on account of the incarnation of the Word of God for the working out of our salvation, that the man Christ Jesus might be the Mediator between God and men, many things are so said in the sacred books as to signify, or even most expressly declare, the Father to be greater than the Son; men have erred through a want…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5
Read the whole comment“Wherefore He will judge as the Son of man, yet not by human power, but by that whereby He is the Son of God; and on the other hand, He will judge as the Son of God, yet not appearing in that [unincarnate] form in which He is God equal to the Father, but in that [incarnate form] in which He is the Son of man.” — editor's note: [Augustin in this discussion, sometimes employs the phrase “Son of man” to denote the human nature of Christ, in distinction from the divine. But in Scripture…
Read the whole comment“But you learn in another place that he does not mean any one of the angels as a mediator, but the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, in so far as He deigned to be made man: “For there is one God,” he says, “and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5
Read the whole comment“So the Son of God Himself, the Word of God, Himself also the Mediator between God and men, the Son of man, equal to the Father through the unity of the Godhead, and partaker with us by the taking upon Him of humanity, interceding for us with the Father in that He…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5
Read the whole comment“…is greater than I;” so that the very being of God, which is one to Him with the Father, is itself the head of the man who is mediator, which He is alone.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5
Read the whole comment“And free accordingly from the power of the devil, they are borne up by holy angels, being set free from all evils by the mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5
Read the whole comment“Who is this Man, but “the Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus”?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“This, then, as Scripture says, is the “Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus,” of whose divinity, whereby He is equal to the Father, and humanity, whereby He has become like us, this is not the place to speak as fully as I could.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…of God sojourning in this world; that is to say, of the church, which is rescued by the wood on which hung the Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“By the priesthood he here means the people itself, of which He is the Priest who is the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…was to reign, and that we may look to the race of David, whence also is sprung, according to the flesh, the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“And it is not to be supposed that this was granted to any one, unless the one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, was divinely revealed to him; who was pre-announced to the saints of old as yet to come in the flesh, even as He is announced to us as having come, that the…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Of that man we have to-day heard it said: “One Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment““For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“The separating medium is sin, the reconciling Mediator is the Lord Jesus Christ: “For there is one God and Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment““For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“And no more is it independently of the grace of the Holy Spirit that the Mediator between God and men is the man Christ Jesus: for with His own lips He tells us that the prophetical utterance had been fulfilled in Himself: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because He hath anointed…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“This passage of the Gospel, brethren, where the Lord calls Himself the vine, and His disciples the branches, declares in so many words that the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, is the head of the Church, and that we are His members.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“But when He says, “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you,” He indicates no such equality between our nature and His as there is between Himself and the Father, but the grace whereby the Mediator between God and men is the man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“For we were chosen in the same way as He was glorified; inasmuch as before the world was, neither we nor the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, were yet in existence.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…Son, by whom He created all things, that He might become man while remaining God, and so be the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus: that those who believe in Him, being absolved by the laver of regeneration from the guilt of all their sins,—to wit, both of the original sin they have…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5, 6
Read the whole comment“And writing to Timothy he says, “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Now, in order that He might be shown to have together in Himself at once the nature of God and that of man,—as the apostle, too, says: “Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But what is He Who is at once the Most High and man, what but “the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus Who gave Himself as a ransom for us”?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Leo the Great
“…by His Father before every beginning, and in another by His mother at the end of the ages: so that He was “mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” in whom dwelt “the fulness of the Godhead bodily:” because it was the assumed (nature) not the Assuming (nature) which was raised, because God “exalted Him…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“If such is our fear, we ought to erase the words of the Apostle, There is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, because Photinus uses this to support his heresy, and refuse to read it because he interprets it mischievously.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Again, they say that Paul proclaims, For there is One God, and One Mediator between God and men.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Basil the Great
“For at that time in the ministry of the law, he by means of himself typified “the Mediator between God and men.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For there is One God, and One Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Let our Lord be set between God and men!” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Cross-references · 73
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