1 Timothy 3:15 (WEB)
but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Catechism · 3
We Believe
“She guards the memory of Christ's words; it is she who from generation to generation hands on the apostles' confession of faith.” — Catechism footnote: I Tim 3:15; Jude 3.
The Church, Mother and Teacher
“The Church, the "pillar and bulwark of the truth," "has received this solemn command of Christ from the apostles to announce the saving truth."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Tim 3:15; LG 17.
The Church in God's Plan
“It is this holy city that is seen by John as it comes down out of heaven from God when the world is made anew, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 3:9; Mt 21:42 and parallels; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:7; PS 118:22; 1 Cor 3:11; 1 Tim 3:15; Eph 2:19-22; Rev 21:3; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev 21:1-2.
Fathers and councils · 7
Origen
“Each one of us, then, is come “in the last days,” when one Jesus has visited us, to the “visible mountain of the Lord,” the Word that is above every word, and to the “house of God,” which is “the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Tim. iii. 15.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith.” — editor's note: See 1 Tim. iii. 15, where these terms are used in reference to the Church.
Read the whole comment“…are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the Church is scattered throughout all the world, and the “pillar and ground” of the Church is the Gospel and the spirit of life; it is fitting that she should have four pillars, breathing out immortality on every side, and vivifying men…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 15.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Concerning this Holy Catholic Church Paul writes to Timothy, That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the House of God, which is the Church of the Living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 15.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“And in what city but in this newly built and God-constructed one, which is a ‘church of the living God, a pillar and foundation of the truth,’ concerning which also another divine oracle thus proclaims, ‘Glorious things have been spoken of thee, oh city of God.’” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For Her called firmament, hear also in the Apostolic Epistles, “the pillar and firmament of the truth.”…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 15.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Quin et unius quoque uxoris virum utique admittit; seu sit presbyter, seu diaconus, seu laicus, utens matrimonio citra reprehensionem: “Servabitur autem per filiorum procreationem.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 15.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Catechism §756.
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Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.33.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.33.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.