Christians of Jerusalem.

Timothy had a particular order to go afterwards to Corinth, to correct
certain abuses, and to revive in the minds of the faithful there the
doctrine which the apostle had taught them; who, writing soon after to
the Corinthians, earnestly recommended this disciple to them.[9] St.
Paul waited in Asia for his return, and then went with him into Macedon
and Achaia. St. Timothy left him at Philippi, but rejoined him at Troas.
The apostle on his return to Palestine was imprisoned, and after two
years custody at Caesarea, was sent to Rome. Timothy seems to have been
with him all or most of this time, and is named by him in the titles of
his epistles to Philemon, and to the Philippians and Thessalonians, in
the years 61 and 62. St. Timothy himself suffered imprisonment for
Christ, and gloriously confessed his name, in the presence of many
witnesses; but was set at liberty.[10] He was ordained bishop by a
prophecy, and a particular order of the Holy Ghost.[11] He received by
this imposition of hands, not only the grace of the sacrament, and the
authority to govern the church, but also the power of miracles, and the
other exterior gifts of the Holy Ghost. St. Paul being returned from
Rome into the East, in the year 64, left St. Timothy at Ephesus, to
govern that church, to oppose false teachers, and to ordain priests,
deacons, and even bishops.[12] For St. Chrysostom[13] and other fathers
observe, that he committed to him the care of all the churches of Asia:
and St. Timothy is always named the first bishop of Ephesus.[14]

St. Paul wrote his first epistle to Timothy from Macedon, in 64; and his
second, in 65, from Rome, while there in chains, to press him to come to
Rome, that he might see him again before he died. It is an effusion of
his heart, full of tenderness towards this his dearest son. In it he
encourages {210} him, endeavors to renew and stir up in his soul that
spirit of intrepidity, and that fire of the Holy Ghost, with which he
was filled at his ordination; gives him instructions concerning the
heretics of that time, and adds a lively description of such as would
afterwards arise.[15]

We learn[16] that St. Timothy drank only water: but his austerities
having prejudiced his health, on account of his weak stomach and
frequent infirmities, St. Paul ordered him to use a little wine. The
fathers observe that he only says a little, even in that necessity,
because the flesh is to be kept weak