In meekness instructing those that oppose them; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
All Commentaries on 2 Timothy 2:25 Go To 2 Timothy 2
Basil the Great
AD 379
The supeio should not administe a ebuke to wongdoes when his own passions ae aoused. By admonishing a bothe with ange and indignation, he does not fee him fom his faults but involves himself in the eo…. No should he become vehemently angy even when he himself is teated with contempt. When he sees such teatment inflicted upon anothe, he should again show himself indulgent towad the sinne; but moe than that, he ought, in the latte case, to manifest displeasue at the wong done. The Long Rules, q...
