1 TIMOTHY 3:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth — the church as both oikos theou and ekklēsia of the living God bears singular responsibility: to be stulos kai hedraima (pillar and foundation) undergirding alētheia (truth). Ecclesiastical order serves truth's preservation and proclamation.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 3:15
That he may not plunge Timothy into dejection by giving him orders about such matters, he says, I write thus not as though I were not coming, but I will indeed come, still in case I should be delayed, that you may not be distressed. And this he writes to him to prevent his being dejected, but to others in order to rouse them to greater earnestness. For his presence, though only promised, would have great effect. Nor let it seem strange that, though foreseeing everything…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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