2 Timothy 2:15

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus V.1Book V

  “…of arguments and treatises, to confirm men in their faith, and to earn the name of “workmen needing not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Tim. ii. 15.

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Eusebius of Caesarea

• Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History IV.3Book IV

  “The work is still in the hands of a great many of the brethren, as also in our own, and furnishes clear proofs of the man’s understanding and of his apostolic orthodoxy.” — editor's note: ὀρθοτομία. Compare the use of ὀρθομοῦντα in 2 Tim. ii. 15.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions VI.3Book VI

  “…that I might pour them out to him, but never were they able to find him so; and I heard him, indeed, every Lord’s day, “rightly dividing the word of truth” among the people; and I was all the more convinced that all those knots of crafty calumnies, which those deceivers of ours had knit against the divine books,…” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 15.

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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, Letters Letter 172

  “…Churches, when the sufferers from unsound disputation were few, and all lived in peace, “workmen” obeying the commandments and not “needing to be ashamed,” serving the Lord with simple and clear confession, and keeping plain and inviolate their faith in Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 15.

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• Basil the Great, Letters Letter 190

  “Only let him be a servant of God, “a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,” not “looking on his own things,” but on the things of the most, “that they be saved.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 15.

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• Genesis 1:26

  Cited together in Confessions VI.3.

• Genesis 1:27

  Cited together in Confessions VI.3.

• Psalm 68:11

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.1.

• Proverbs 10:19

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.1.

• Proverbs 21:20

  Cited together in Confessions VI.3.

• Matthew 24:12

  Cited together in Letters Letter 172.

• 2 Corinthians 10:5

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.1.

• Philippians 2:4

  Cited together in Letters Letter 190.

• Colossians 3:10

  Cited together in Confessions VI.3.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:16

  Cited together in Letters Letter 190.