[Elsie]

The "pillar" and "ground" of the truth --- the structure that upholds God's truth on earth --- is the Church of God.

Like I said; that's how YOU guys parse it.

[Elsie]

Come back here you slippery varmit!!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Better if you rely on translators for "parsing"--- and not one of these is a "Catholic" translation, they're all Protestant/Evangelical:

#739

"...the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth.(Young's Literal Translation) "An assembly" = "a pillar"

"This is the church of the living God, which is the pillar and foundation of the truth. (NLT)"Church which is" the pillar.

"..you will know how everyone who belongs to God's family ought to behave. After all, the church of the living God is the strong foundation of truth.(CEV)

... I now write, so that you may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household. For this is what the Church of the ever-living God is, and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth.(WNT)(Church "IT" is the pillar...)

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You may read at BibleHub the most esteemed of the Protestant or Evangelical commentators, who say that the pillar (στύλον) and foundation, bulwark, ground (ἑδραίωμα) refer to the aforementioned "church of the Living God."

[Syncro]

I notice that some type Church with nothing preceding the word.

We Christians are collectively all part of and in the church that Jesus created.

I think that Catholics want us to believe that the “Church” refers to the Catholic Church. And it is THE “church” that Jesus started.

Sad that they don’t seen to want to be a part of the church, but just the denominational Church.