2 TIMOTHY 2:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”
if we are faithless, he remains faithful — for he cannot deny himself. — The asymmetry: human pistis (faithfulness) may fail; yet Christ's fidelity persists, grounded in his essential nature (arneō heauton). God's constancy transcends human inconstancy.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 2:13
Many of the weaker sort of men give up the effort of faith, and do not endure the deferring of their hope. They seek things present, and form from these their judgment of the future. When therefore their lot here was death, torments, and chains, and yet he says, they shall come to eternal life, they would not have believed, but would have said, “What do you say? When I live, I die; and when I die, I live? You promise nothing on earth, and do you give it in heaven? Little…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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