Commentarii in Epistolas D. Pauli ad Timoth. ad Titum, et ad Philem. facili et perspicua methodo conscripti. A D. Benedicto Aretio bernensi theologo. Cum indice rerum memorabilium quae in hisce conti

He is touched by a sense of commiseration. Therefore, let us define it thus: Mercy is pain at another's evil, which seems unworthy to God, that it should corrupt the whole man; therefore, He brought forth a remedy for the evil.

Peace is every kind of happiness, by which the mind is rendered peaceful; for nature wishes it to be well with itself, so that in actions there may be εὐπραξία success/well-doing, in counsels ὀρθότης uprightness/correctness, in the necessities of life εὐπορία abundance/ease, all of which conspire into a certain εὐδαιμονίαν happiness/blessedness and αὐτάρκειαν self-sufficiency. A sense of this renders the mind peaceful. Therefore, that peace is found in God alone; for this reason, he prudently refers all these things to God the Father and Jesus Christ the mediator. The Father is reconciled to us in the Son, therefore the Son is the peacemaker. Hence, the pious, in the midst of dangers and troubles, refer themselves cheerfully to God, because that peace remains inviolate, and from this flows every kind of happiness.

The world is ignorant of this security of the mind and supreme happiness, and it mocks the pious as stupid, and foolishly transfers the name of happiness and peace to certain external aids of riches, glory, form, strength, health, and similar things, in which nothing of hope or constancy can be found in true terrors and troubles of the mind.

3. Just as I asked you.

2. Part of the Epist. and its argument.

The second part of the epistle, which encompasses the instruction according to which Timothy must administer everything in the Ephesian Church most vigilantly.

And its first place is concerning sound doctrine