1 Timothy 4:3 (WEB)
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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;” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Tim 4:3-9; 2 Tim 2:22.
Fathers and councils · 20
Origen
“…with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe;” and to have misunderstood also those who employed these declarations of the apostle against such as had corrupted the doctrines of Christianity.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Tim. iv. 1–3.
Read the whole comment- Origen, De Principiis II.7Book II
“…destruction and ruin of many, and to abstain from meats, that by an ostentatious exhibition of stricter observance they may seduce the souls of the innocent.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 1–3.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“They declare also, that marriage and generation are from Satan.” — editor's note: [1 Tim. iv. 3.]
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Jerome
“…given to us for food, and the Apostle cries aloud ‘All things are clean to the clean, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving,’ andtells us that men will come in the last days, forbidding to marry, and to eat meats, which God created for use?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 3.
Read the whole comment“Why should I abstain from meats which God has created to be received with thanksgiving?”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 3.
Read the whole comment“For he condemns and reprobates not marriage only, but foods also which God has created for us to enjoy.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 3.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…of this sort, when he says: forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 3.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.13Conference XXI
“For “if a man thinks that a thing is common, to him it is common.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 3, 4; Rom. xiv. 14.
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Tertullian
“…range of the meat-market—(the apostle, I say), that detester of such as, in like manner as they prohibit marrying, so bid us abstain from meats created by God.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Tim. iv. 3.
Read the whole comment“The apostle sets a brand upon those who were wont entirely to forbid marriage, who were wont at the same time to lay an interdict on meats which God has created.” — editor's note: See 1 Tim. iv. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“I rather think that by Marcion’s rule the body is baptized, is deprived of marriage, is cruelly tortured in confession.” — editor's note: Compare De Præscr. Hær. 33, where Marcion and Apelles are brought under St. Paul’s reproach in 1 Tim. iv. 3.
Read the whole comment“Such also as “forbid to marry” he reproaches in his instructions to Timothy.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 3.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“They then who without any moderation inculcate the law of God, and command us to have no care for the things required by the body, are the Pharisees, who forbad to give tribute to Caesar, “forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created.” [1 Tim. 4:3]” — the author cites it
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Gregory the Great
“Let the latter hear, Some shall depart from the faith; and a little after, Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth (1 Tim. iv. 1, 3).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“And as it is befitting, before partaking of food, that we should bless the Creator of all; so also in drinking it is suitable to praise Him on partaking of His creatures.” — editor's note: [Even the heathen had such forms. The Christian grace before and after meat is here recognised as a matter of course. 1 Tim. iv. 3, 4.]
Read the whole comment“Jam de iis, qui matrimonium abhorrent, dicit beatus Paulus: “In novissimis diebus deficient quidam a fide, attendentes spiritibus erroris, et doctrinis dæmoniorum, prohibentium nubere, abstinere a cibis.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 1, 3.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“No one, however, tastes these before the priest utters a blessing, and prays over the food.” — editor's note: [The Essenes practised many pious and edifying rites; and this became Christian usage, after our Lord’s example. Matt. xiv. 19; 1 Tim. iv. 3–5.]
Read the whole comment“You forbid marriage, the procreation of children, (and) the abstaining from meats which God has created for participation by the faithful, and those that know the truth.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 3.
Read the whole comment“…because every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 1–5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For there were to be those of whom the apostle spoke, “forbidding to marry,” and asserting that marriage was an evil, and of the devil’s institution: notwithstanding the same Lord declares in the Gospel, on being asked whether it be…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iv. 3.
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Cross-references · 34
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31.
Cited together in De Principiis II.7.
Cited together in De Principiis II.7.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.24.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in De Principiis II.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.24.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.24.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.24.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.24.
Cited together in De Principiis II.7.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.16.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:15–22 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:15–22 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:15–22 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:15–22 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:15–22 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:15–22 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.13.
Cited together in De Principiis II.7.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.64.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.64.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.64.
Cited together in De Principiis II.7.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31.