2 Timothy 4:3 (WEB)
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
Fathers and councils · 9
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For their Mother—that is, Leto—secretly stirred them up (whence also she is called Leto, according to the meaning of the Greek word, because she secretly stirred up men), without the knowledge of the Demiurge, to give forth profound and unspeakable mysteries to itching ears.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 3.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For men have fallen away from the truth, and have itching ears.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 3.
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Jerome
“Or how is the cause helped by the men who dance attendance upon these, men with itching ears who know neither how to hear nor how to speak?” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 3.
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Leo the Great
“But these things are suited to the minds of those of whom the Apostle speaks, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts: and will turn away indeed their hearing from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 3, 4.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…but having itching ears will heap up teachers to themselves after their own lusts, and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 3, 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For there are certain persons who have not only their ears and their tongues, but even, as I now perceive, their hands too, itching for our words; who delight in profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so…” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 3.
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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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Cyprian of Carthage
“Paul, in the second to Timothy: “There will be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine; but according to their own lusts will heap to themselves teachers itching in hearing, tickling their ears; and shall turn away their hearing indeed from the truth, but they shall be converted unto fables.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 3, 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“It is such whom the apostle foresaw through the Holy Spirit, when he said: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iv. 3, 4.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Against Heresies II.21.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.21.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 35.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 35.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 35.