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Phileas of Thmuis

4th century · AD 306 · Early Fathers (before Nicaea) · 2 passages

Background on Phileas of Thmuis

In his own words on 1 Timothy

  • 1 Timothy 5:22

    And the man who put on Christ, who is the Christ of all of us no less; for he, in writing to his dearly-beloved son Timothy, says: "Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins."

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.