Maximus of Turin
5th century · AD 465 · Pre-Schism Western · 117 passages
Background on 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
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations — including the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers and the early patristic chain-commentary compiled in the Catena Aurea. Each quotation links to its source.