ACC ~ 1 Timothy 4 v10

GOD’S CARE FOR ALL. ORIGEN: Our reply to this is that he attributes to us statements which we do not make. For we both read and know that God “loves everything that exists and hates nothing that he has made; for he would never have made anything if he had hated it.” … He is also called “Savior of all men, especially of those who believe,” and his Christ is “a propitiation for our sins, but not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”… But now, according to our preaching, Jesus who is called the Christ of God by a certain traditional usage in the Bible has come on behalf of sinners in all places, that they may forsake their sin and entrust themselves to God. AGAINST CELSUS 4.28.

THE TWO WAYS. ANONYMOUS: We also, following our teacher Christ, “who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.” are obliged to say that there are two ways. One is the way of life, the other of death. These have no comparison one with another, for they are very different, or rather entirely separate. The way of life is that of nature, but that of death was afterwards introduced—it not being according to the mind of God but from the snares of the adversary. CONSTITUTIONS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES 7.1.

ALL HAVE NEED. AUGUSTINE: But in the Lord’s own very humility (in consenting to be baptized by John) there is a marvelous medicine; one was baptizing, the other healing. You see, if Christ is the Savior of all, especially of the faithful—it is the apostle’s judgment, and a true one, that Christ is the Savior of all—then nobody may say, “I have no need of a savior.” If you say this, you are not bowing humbly to the doctor’s orders but perishing in your disease. SERMONS 292.4.

NOT THREE SAVIORS BUT THREE IN ONE. GREGORY OF NYSSA: The Savior of all, especially of believers, is spoken of by the apostle as one. Yet no one argues from this expression that the Son does not save believers or that those who share in salvation receive it apart from the Spirit. But God who is over all is the Savior of all, while the Son brings salvation to effect by the grace of the Spirit. Yet on this account Scripture does not call them three Saviors, although salvation is recognized to come from the holy Trinity. AN ANSWER TO ABLABIUS: THAT WE SHOULD NOT THINK OF SAYING THERE ARE THREE GODS.

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