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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS Timothy & Titus
DESCRIPTION:THE VIRTUE OF ST TIMOTHY \nAS A PATTERN FOR CHRISTIANS \nFrom a sermon by St John Henry Newman \n◊◊◊ \n“Drink no longer water\, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and \nfor your other infirmities”. This is a remarkable verse\, because it accidentally tells \nus so much. It is addressed to Timothy\, St Paul’s companion\, the first Bishop of \nEphesus. Of Timothy we know very little\, except that he did minister to St Paul\, \nand hence we might have inferred that he was a man of very saintly character; but \nwe know little or nothing of him\, except that he had been from a child a careful \nreader of Scripture… \nTimothy…had so read the Old Testament\, and had so heard from St Paul the \nNew\, that he was a true follower of the Apostle\, as the Apostle was of Christ. St Paul \naccordingly calls him “my own son”\, or “my true son in the faith”. And elsewhere \nhe says to the Philippians that he has “no man like-minded to Timothy\, who would \nnaturally” or truly “care for their state”… St Paul does not expressly tell us that he \nwas a man of mortified habits; but he reveals the fact indirectly by cautioning him \nagainst an excess of mortification. “Drink no longer water\,” he says\, “but use a little \nwine.” It should be observed that wine\, in the southern countries\, is the ordinary \nbeverage; it is nothing strong or costly. Yet even from such as this\, Timothy was in \nthe habit of abstaining\, and restricting himself to water; and\, as the Apostle \nthought\, imprudently\, to the increase of his “frequent infirmities.” \nThere is something very striking in this accidental mention of the private \nways of this Apostolic Bishop. We know indeed from history the doctrine and the \nlife of the great saints\, who lived some time after the Apostles’ age; but we are \nnaturally anxious to know something more of the Apostles themselves and their \nassociates. We say\, “Oh that we could speak to St Paul – that we could see him in his \ndaily walk\, and hear his…teaching! – that we could ask him what he meant by this \nexpression in his Epistles\, or what he thought of this or the other doctrine.” This is \nnot given to us. God might give us greater light than He does; but it is His gracious \nwill to give us the less. Yet perhaps much more has been given us in Scripture\, as it \nhas come to us\, than we think\, if our eyes were enlightened to discern it there. Such\, \nfor instance\, is this text; it is a sudden revelation\, a glimpse of the personal \ncharacter of Apostolic Christians; it is a hint which we may follow out. For no one \nwill deny that a very great deal of doctrine\, and a very great deal of precept\, goes \nwith such a fact as this: namely\, that this holy man\, without impiously disparaging \nGod’s creation\, and thanklessly rejecting God’s gifts\, yet\, on the whole\, lived a life \nof abstinence. \nI cannot understand why such a life is not excellent in a Christian now\, if it \nwas the characteristic of Apostles and friends of Apostles then. I really do not see \nwhy the trials and persecutions\, which surrounded them from Jews and Gentiles\, \ntheir forlorn despised state\, and their necessary discomforts\, should not even have \nexempted them from voluntary sufferings in addition\, unless such self-imposed \nhardships were pleasing to Christ. Such were the holy men of old. How far are we \nbelow them! Alas for our easy sensual life\, our cowardice\, our sloth! Is this the way \nby which the kingdom of God is won?
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