1 Timothy 4:
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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"Forbidding to marry"
Council of Nicea Canon 3
The great Council has stringently forbidden any bishop, priest, deacon, or any of the clergy, to have a woman living with him, except a mother, sister, aunt, or some such person who is beyond all suspicion.
"commanding to abstain from meats"
"Although a full record of the acts of the Council of Nicaea of 325 does not survive, one of the actions attributed to it is the fixing, or prefixing, to Easter a fast of 40 days. Every indication is that this 40-day fast was of Egyptian origin, and, in its original purpose, was wholly unconnected with ascetical preparation for the celebration of the Lord’s passion, death, and Resurrection"
On the Origins of the (More or Less) Forty-Day Fast by William J. Tighe - See more at: http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=22-02-009-v#sthash.lc00teZ5.dpuf- On the Origins of the (More or Less) Forty-Day Fast by William J. Tighe
"... the rulers of the church ordained fasts by express laws, and commanded as a necessary duty what was before left at discretion....in this age many deemed it sufficient to omit the use of flesh and wine and this sentiment afterwards became universal among the Latins...... "
Although a full record of the acts of the Council of Nicaea of 325 does not survive, one of the actions attributed to it is the fixing, or prefixing, to Easter a fast of 40 days. Every indication is that this 40-day fast was of Egyptian origin, and, in its original purpose, was wholly unconnected with ascetical preparation for the celebration of the Lord’s passion, death, and Resurrection. - See more at: http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=22-02-009-v#sthash.lc00teZ5.dpuf
-Mosheim, Ecclesiastical History, IV century, part II, Chapter IV, section 6
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"Speaking lies in hypocrisy" :
"To these defects in the moral system of the age, must be added two principal errors now wellnigh pubicly adopted, and from which afterwards immense evils resulted. The first was, that to deceive and lie, is a virtue, when religion can be promoted by it. The other was, that errors in religion, when maintained and adhered to after proper admonition, ought to be visited with penalties and punishments
I cannot except Ambrose, nor Hilary, nor Augustine, nor Gregory Nazianzen, nor Jerome......"
- Mosheim, Ecclesiastical History, IV century, Part II, Chapter IV, section 16
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For if the evil of deception is absolute, and it is never right to make use of it, I am prepared to pay any penalty you please: or rather, as you will never endure to inflict punishment upon me, I shall subject myself to the same condemnation which is pronounced by judges on evil-doers when their accusers have convicted them.But if the thing is not always harmful, but becomes good or bad according to the intention of those who practise it, you must desist from complaining of deceit, and prove that it has been devised against you for a bad purpose; and as long as this proof is wanting it would only be fair for those who wish to conduct themselves prudently, not only to abstain from reproaches and accusation, but even to give a friendly reception to the deceiver. For a well-timed deception, undertaken with an upright intention, has such advantages, that many persons have often had to undergo punishment for abstaining from fraud.
And often it is necessary to deceive, and to do the greatest benefits by means of this device, whereas he who has gone by a straight course has done great mischief to the person whom he has not deceived.
- John Chrysostom , On the Priesthood, Book I
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Jerome believed Paul was a pathological liar:
"I will only mention the Apostle Paul. ... He, then, if anyone, ought to be calumniated; we should speak thus to him: ‘The proofs which you have used against the Jews and against other heretics bear a different meaning in their own contexts to that which they bear in your Epistles.
We see passages taken captive by your pen and pressed into service to win you a victory, which in volumes from which they are taken have no controversial bearing at all ... the line so often adopted by strong men in controversy – of justifying the means by the result."
– St. Jerome, Epistle to Pammachus (xlviii, 13; N&PNF. vi, 72-73)
The absurd Protestant fantasy of Saint Paul rebuking Saint Peter in Galatians II as a proof against the papacy is often conjured up again today centuries after it was invented by the likes of the Protestant arch-heretics. Like their predecessors they like to use Galatians II vs 11 to shake the faith of Catholics in regard to the papacy......
....Jerome only held what S. Chrysostom did, viz., that the rebuke administered to Peter by Paul was not really intended, but was merely theatrical, it being arranged between them beforehand that Paul should rebuke Peter, not for simulation, but for thoughtless dissimulation, and that Peter should accept the rebuke thus arranged for, that so the Judaisers might be really rebuked in the specious rebuke given to Peter, and with him might clearly understand that Judaising was forbidden.
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Eusebius, the historian on selectively representing early history:
"We shall introduce into this history in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity."
– Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 8, chapter 2.
The church "fathers"
http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-church-fathers.html
The muse(s) of Jerome
http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-muse-of-jerome.html
Jerome, the scribe of the Antichristhttp://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2014/09/jerome-scribe-of-antichrist.html
Augustinehttp://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2015/03/augustine-venom-of-rome.html

