Leo the Great
5th century · AD 461 · Western · 165 passages
Bishop of Rome whose Tome clarified how Christ is both divine and human; a plain and dignified preacher.
In his own words on 2 Thessalonians
- 2 Thessalonians 3:2
But because "all men have not faith" and the crafty Tempter never delights so much in wounding the hearts of men as when he can poison their unwary minds with errors that are opposed to Gospel Truth, we must strive by the mighty teaching of the Holy Ghost to prevent Christian knowledge from being perverted by the devil's falsehoods. And against this danger it behoves the rulers of the churches especially to guard and to avert from the minds of simple folk lies which are coloured by a certain show of truth.
Letter 129 To Proterius, Bishop of Alexandria
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.