Pelagius

In his own words on 2 Timothy

• 2 Timothy 1:3

  Paul says, My whole origin steered me to the worship of God. I devastated the church of Christ not from malevolence but from zeal for the law.

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY

• 2 Timothy 1:9

  God foreknew those who would be reborn in response to the offer of grace.

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY

• 2 Timothy 2:2

  Either "with many persons present I gave you mandates such as you should teach," or "what I said I have confirmed with many examples and testimonies from the prophets."

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY

• 2 Timothy 2:14

  Do not manipulate Scripture testimonies. This kind of argument does not edify but does damage to one's hearers, who come to think that a certain sharpness and subtlety of mind is everything. Or: Don't try to win with words but with deeds.

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY

• 2 Timothy 2:15

  It is correct living that confirms the word and that interprets it rightly.

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY

• 2 Timothy 2:17

  That kind of wound is called a suppurating sore, which begins in the female breasts and then grows quickly into the abdominal region. When it finally becomes a poison that permeates the heart, there is no remedy. In just such a way the discussions of heretics are to be avoided, lest through the ears they reach the mind with an irremediable wound.

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY

• 2 Timothy 2:18

  The resurrection has happened, according to them, either in children or in Ezekiel's reference to the revivified bones of the people of Israel in captivity.

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY

• 2 Timothy 2:20

  The house described by Paul cannot be the church, which is pure, but must be the world with its mixture of wheat and tares.

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY

• 2 Timothy 4:2

  Preaching is always appropriate, whether to those who hear willingly or not.

  PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY