2 Timothy 4:2 (WEB)
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
Fathers and councils · 14
Gregory the Great
“And the excellent preacher says, Argue, beseech, rebuke, with all longsuffering and doctrine (2 Tim. iv. 2).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For in admonishing Timothy he says, Reprove, entreat, rebuke, with all long-suffering and doctrine (2 Tim. iv. 2).” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…of virtue; so that the blessed Paul, when instructing his disciple, teaches him to observe the time, saying, ‘Stand (ready) in season, and out of season’—that knowing both the one and the other, he might do things befitting the season, and avoid the blame of unseasonableness.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2. The due celebration of the feast is spoken of as producing a permanent beneficial effect on the Christian. Cf. Letter 4.
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John Chrysostom
“For Paul saith, “In season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort” ( 2 Tim. iv. 2 ); and the Prophet too saith, “In His law will he meditate day and night” ( Ps. i. 3 ); and Moses commanded the Jews to do this always.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“How then doth He say elsewhere, “Reprove, rebuke, exhort,”and, “Them that sin rebuke before all?”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““Be instant in season and out of season.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2
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Jerome
“…over that of Salamis in Cyprus,—I in my modesty was for avoiding the eyes of highborn ladies, yet she pleaded so earnestly, “both in season and out of season” as the apostle says, that at last her perseverance overcame my reluctance.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2.
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Basil the Great
“He who shows another to be wrong ought to do so with all tenderness, in the fear of God, and with the object of converting the sinner.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“Let him remember the words, “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged;” and “Condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned.” [In a word, brethren, if my offences admit of cure, why does not such an one obey the teacher of the Churches, “Reprove, exhort, rebuke”?” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Since it is written, as the holy Apostle Paul says, whose teaching you cannot controvert: “Be instant, in season, out of season, reprove, entreat, rebuke with all patience and doctrine.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For a man blessed of Thee would not enjoin a sin upon his own true son in the faith, to whom he wrote, “Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2
Read the whole comment“Come down, Peter: thou wast desiring to rest on the mount; come down, “preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…ineffectual, he added to his reasoning the succour which comes from action; he paid visits, sent messages, gave interviews, instructed, reproved, rebuked, threatened, reproached, undertook the defence of nations, cities and individuals, devising every kind of succour, and procuring from every source specifics for…” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 2.
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Tertullian
“Just as they carefully prepared their will and testament, and committed it to a trust, and adjured (the trustees to be faithful to their charge), even so do I hold it.” — editor's note: Compare 1 Tim. v. 21, and vi. 13; 2 Tim. ii. 14, and iv. 1–4.
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Cross-references · 24
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.17.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.17.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.17.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.28.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 35.