Maximus of Turin

In his own words on 2 Timothy

• 2 Timothy 2:4

  Clerics do not seem to be on military service in the world, yet they are nonetheless soldiers for God and the Lord. As the apostle says, No one soldiering for God involves himself in secular affairs. We seem, I say, not to be soldiers in our loose and flowing tunics, but we have our military belt, by which we are bound to an interior purity.

  SERMONS 26.4