1 Timothy

"In later times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and to teachings of demons, in the hypocrisy of liars, seared in their conscience, and forbidding to marry and to abstain from foods, which God created to be partaken of with thanksgiving by the faithful and by those who have known the truth.

of a particular man, as, for example, of Paul, that he alone was caught up to the third heaven and heard unspeakable words that are not lawful for a man to utter;

Plainly the same Apostle handed over Hymenaeus and Alexander to Satan, that they might be amended not to blaspheme, as he writes to his own Timothy.

And to this state the blessed Būlus pointed in his word to his disciple, that he should govern (2) his body well (3).

Likewise, if the same is visible after the flesh, how is he now too pronounced invisible by the Apostles, except because he is another — whom, even formerly seen in a riddle, the flesh made more fully visible, namely the Word, who was also made flesh — another whom no one ever saw, except the Father, namely whose the Word is?

He, called the sequester of God and of men, out of the deposit of either party committed to Him keeps in Himself the deposit of the flesh too, the earnest of the whole sum.

But writing to Timothy too, he wishes the younger women to marry, to bear children, to act as mothers of families.

Paul warns Timothy against young1 widows, because, says he, when they “wax wanton they will marry again;