(Updated July 16, 2025)
This Author Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Ecclesiastical Writer, Theodore of Mopsuestia.
Next to each quote are the Topic Quote Archives in which they are included.
This Quote Archive is being continuously updated as research continues. Quotes marked with “***” have not yet been organized into their respective Topic Quote Archives.
Biblical Commentaries
Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentary on 2 Thessalonians
- End Times | Commentary on 2:4
(Commentary on 2:4)1
And he calls him “the adversary” [“who opposes”], inasmuch as he does things adverse to the divine will and strives to draw all people over to himself. And he is the one “highly exalting himself above everything that is said to be god or that is worshiped,” because by persuading all people to depart from their own sect, he will make them worship him, saying that he is himself Christ, to whom he will claim the honor of God should be bestowed by all, as is right. For in this way even “in God’s temples,” that is, even in the houses of prayer, he will enter and take his seat as though he were Christ and for this reason should be worshiped in the rank of God by all.
Homilies
Theodore of Mopsuestia, Catechetical Homily 15 (c. 410)
(§10)2
Then, when [our Lord] distributed the bread, he did not say that this is a type of my body, but that “This is my body”; and in like manner as regards the chalice [of wine], that this is not a type of my blood, but that “This is my blood.” For, when we receive the 168 | 169 grace coming from the Holy Spirit, [our Lord] wanted us no longer to regard the nature [of the body and blood] but accept them as the body and blood of our Lord. Also the body of our Lord did not naturally possess immortality and [the power] to give immortality, but this was given him by the Holy Spirit. At his resurrection from the dead, he attained to his [full] union with the divine nature, and then became immortal and the cause of others’ becoming immortal.
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