y, the care he
owes to his own soul. Neither can he hope to kindle the fire of charity
in others, if he suffer it to be extinguished {211} in his own breast.
These exercises are also indispensably necessary in a certain degree, in
all states and circumstances of life; nor is it possible for a Christian
otherwise to maintain a spirit of true piety, which ought to animate the
whole body of all his actions, and without which even spiritual
functions want as it were their soul.

Footnotes:
1. 2 Tim. iii. 15.
2. Praef. in 1 Tim.
3. Serm. 177, n. 7.
4. 1 Thess. iii. 2. 1 Cor. iv. 17.
5. 1 Tim. vi. 11.
6. Phil. ii. 20.
7. 1 Tim. i. 18.
8. Acts xviii.
9. 1 Cor. xvi. 10.
10. Heb. xiii. 23.
11. 1 Tim. iv. 14.
12. 1 Tim. {}.
13. Hom. 15, in 1 Tim.
14. Eus. l. 3, c. {} Conc. t. 4, p. 699.
15. 2 Tim. iii. 1, 2.
16. 1 Tim. v. 23.
17. In the Apocalypse, which was written in the year 95, Christ
threatens the bishop of Ephesus, because he was fallen from his
first charity, and exhorts him to do penance and return to his first
works. (Apoc. xi. 4.) Calmet says, that this bishop could be no
other than St. Timothy; Pererius, Cornelieus a Lapide, Grotius,
Alcazar, Bossuet, and other learned men, agree in this point; also
Tillemont, t. 2, p. 147, and Bollandus ad 21 Jan. pp. 563 & 564.
Nicholas a Lyra and Ribera cannot be persuaded that St. Timothy ever
deserved such a censure, unless we understand it only of his flock.
The others say, he might have fallen into some venial remissness in
not reprehending the vices of others with sufficient vigor; which
fault he repaired, upon this admonition, with such earnestness, as
to have given occasion to his martyrdom, in 97. He was succeeded in
the see of Ephesus by John I., who was consecrated by St. John
Evangelist. (See Consitut. Apostol. l. 8, c. 46.) Onesiumus was
third bishop of Ephesus. See Le Quien Oriens. Chris. t. 1, p. 672.
18. Carm. 26.
19. L. 3, c. 2.
20. In Vigilant. c. 2.
21. Hom. 1, ad Pop. Antioch.
22. 1 Tim. iv. 7 and 13.

ST. BABYLAS,

BISHOP OF ANTIOCH AND MARTYR.

From St. Chrysostom, l. contra Gentiles de S. Babyla, and hom. de S.
Babyla, t. 2, ed. Ben. p. 531. He wrote the first discourse against the
Gentiles, expressly to confound them by the miracles of this saint. He
spoke the second five years after, in 3871 on St. Babylas's feast,
before a numerous auditory, and mentions Flavian, the bish