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Titus 2
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Teach Sound Doctrine
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
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<strong>But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine</strong>—the adversative δέ (de, but) contrasts Titus's ministry with false teachers. λάλει (lalei, speak/keep speaking) is present imperative: continuous action. τὰ πρέπει (ta prepei, things which befit/are appropriate to) indicates harmony between teaching content and life application. ὑγιαινούσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ (hygiainousē didaskalia, so...
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**II.**
(1) **But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine.**—To introduce a regular organisation and the principle of a central church government into the numerous but scattered Christian congregations in Crete was Titus’ first work. The second and equally weighty mission the Apostle Paul charged him to execute was the refutation of a school of professed Christian teachers, who were prom...
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**5. But--**in contrast to the doctrine of the false teachers.
**the end--**the aim.
**the commandment--**Greek, "of the charge" which you ought to urge on your flock. Referring to the same Greek word as in 1Ti 1:3, 18; here, however, in a larger sense, as including the Gospel "dispensation of God" (see on 1Ti 1:4; 1Ti 1:11), which was the sum and substance of the "charge" committed to Timothy...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
Prayer to be made for all persons, since the grace of the gospel makes no difference of ranks or stations.(1-7)
How men and women ought to behave, both in their religious and common life.(8-15)
**Verses 1-7**
The disciples of Christ must be praying people; all, without distinction of nation, sect, rank, or party. Our duty as Christians, is summed up in t...
Read full commentary →That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. sober: or, vigilant
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<strong>That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate</strong>—πρεσβύτας (presbyteras, aged men, distinct from πρεσβυτέρους, elders/office-holders) describes older males generally. νηφαλίους (nephalious, sober/clear-headed), σεμνούς (semnous, dignified/serious), σώφρονας (sophronas, self-controlled/sensible)—three character traits appropriate to maturity. Older men should model stability, not immat...
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(2) **That the aged men.**—Not presbyters, or elders, in an official sense, but simply the “old men” in the congregations.
**Be sober.**—In a more extended sense than the bare literal meaning of the word would give. Let the elder men be “thoughtful,” in contrast with the thoughtlessness of careless youth.
**Grave.**—And quietly earnest, in contrast with all passion and undue excitability.
**Temper...
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**6. From which--**namely, from a pure heart, good conscience, and faith unfeigned, the well-spring of love.
**having swerved--**literally, "having missed the mark (the 'end') to be aimed at." It is translated, "erred," 1Ti 6:21; 2Ti 2:18. Instead of aiming at and attaining the graces above named, they "have turned aside (1Ti 5:15; 2Ti 4:4; He 12:13) unto vain jangling"; literally, "vain talk," ...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
Prayer to be made for all persons, since the grace of the gospel makes no difference of ranks or stations.(1-7)
How men and women ought to behave, both in their religious and common life.(8-15)
**Verses 1-7**
The disciples of Christ must be praying people; all, without distinction of nation, sect, rank, or party. Our duty as Christians, is summed up in t...
Read full commentary →The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; holiness: or, holy women false: or, one who foments strife
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<strong>The aged women likewise</strong>—πρεσβύτιδας (presbytidas, aged women) receive parallel instruction. <strong>That they be in behaviour as becometh holiness</strong>—ἐν καταστήματι ἱεροπρεπεῖς (en katastēmati hieroprepeis, in deportment/bearing reverent/befitting sacred things). The compound ἱεροπρεπής suggests priestlike demeanor; Christian women's daily conduct has sacred dignity.<br><br>...
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(3) **The aged women likewise.**—St. Paul, faithful to what had now become one of the guiding principles of Christianity, the equal position of women in the city of God, fellow-heirs with men in the citizenship of the city which hath foundations, proceeds to remind the elder women of Crete of their own high duties in the company of believers. They now—the women—must remember that the position whic...
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7. Sample of their "vain talk" (1Ti 1:6).
**Desiring--**They are would-be teachers, not really so.
**the law--**the Jewish law (Tit 1:14; 3:9). The Judaizers here meant seem to be distinct from those impugned in the Epistles to the Galatians and Romans, who made the works of the law necessary to justification in opposition to Gospel grace. The Judaizers here meant corrupted the law with "fable...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
Prayer to be made for all persons, since the grace of the gospel makes no difference of ranks or stations.(1-7)
How men and women ought to behave, both in their religious and common life.(8-15)
**Verses 1-7**
The disciples of Christ must be praying people; all, without distinction of nation, sect, rank, or party. Our duty as Christians, is summed up in t...
Read full commentary →That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, sober: or, wise
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<strong>That they may teach the young women to be sober</strong>—σωφρονίζωσιν (sophronizōsin, train/encourage/advise) describes the older women's ministry to νέας (neas, young women). The content: φιλάνδρους εἶναι (philandrous einai, to be husband-loving), φιλοτέκνους (philoteknous, child-loving). Both compound adjectives with φίλος (philos, affectionate love).<br><br>This isn't natural instinct b...
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(4) **That they may teach the young women to be sober.**—Better rendered, simply, *that they may* *teach* (or *school*)* the young women, *omitting the words “to be sober.” In Ephesus the representative of the Apostle was directed himself to exhort the younger women; very likely the same charge being given here to the aged women of the congregations was owing to the state of the Cretan Christian, ...
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**8. But--**"Now we know" (Ro 3:19; 7:14).
**law is good--**in full agreement with God's holiness and goodness.
**if a man--**primarily, a teacher; then, every Christian.
**use it lawfully--**in its lawful place in the Gospel economy, namely, not as a means of a "'righteous man" attaining higher perfection than could be attained by the Gospel alone (1Ti 4:8; Tit 1:14), which was the perverte...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
Prayer to be made for all persons, since the grace of the gospel makes no difference of ranks or stations.(1-7)
How men and women ought to behave, both in their religious and common life.(8-15)
**Verses 1-7**
The disciples of Christ must be praying people; all, without distinction of nation, sect, rank, or party. Our duty as Christians, is summed up in t...
Read full commentary →To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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<strong>To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands</strong>—five qualities: σώφρονας (sophronas, self-controlled/discreet), ἁγνάς (hagnas, pure/chaste), οἰκουργούς (oikourgous, working at home/domestic), ἀγαθάς (agathas, good/kind), ὑποτασσομένας τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν (hypotassomenas tois idiois andrasin, submitting to their own husbands). This isn't universal fem...
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(5) **To be discreet.**—See Note in Titus 2:2 of this chapter.
**Chaste.**—Not only in act, but also in look, in speech, in thought, even in dress.
**Keepers at home.—**The older authorities here, instead of “keepers at home” (*domum custodientes, domus curam habentes*), read *workers at home;* the Greek word is not found elsewhere. The sense of the passage is, however, little changed by the alter...
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**9. law is not made for a righteous man--**not for one standing by faith in the righteousness of Christ put on him for justification, and imparted inwardly by the Spirit for sanctification. "One not forensically amenable to the law" [Alford]. For sanctification, the law gives no inward power to fulfil it; but Alford goes too far in speaking of the righteous man as "not morally needing the law." D...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
Prayer to be made for all persons, since the grace of the gospel makes no difference of ranks or stations.(1-7)
How men and women ought to behave, both in their religious and common life.(8-15)
**Verses 1-7**
The disciples of Christ must be praying people; all, without distinction of nation, sect, rank, or party. Our duty as Christians, is summed up in t...
Read full commentary →Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. sober: or, discreet
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<strong>Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded</strong>—νέους (neous, young men) receive briefer instruction: παρακάλει σωφρονεῖν (parakalei sophronein, exhort to be self-controlled/sensible). One command where women received five (v. 4-5). Why? Verses 7-8 shift to Titus personally as the young man's model. Self-control (σωφροσύνη, sophrosynē) was a cardinal Greek virtue but needed Christian...
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(6) **Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.**—The task of influencing the young men belongs especially to Titus. Among them, in respect to age, he still must be reckoned; as regarded their peculiar temptations, none could be found so fit as the still young Christian disciple of St. Paul (he ‘was probably about forty years of age when he was placed over the Cretan Church) to set out vividly...
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**10. whoremongers, &c.--**sinners against the seventh commandment.
**men-stealers--**that is, slave dealers. The most heinous offense against the eighth commandment. No stealing of a man's goods can equal in atrocity the stealing of a man's liberty. Slavery is not directly assailed in the New Testament; to have done so would have been to revolutionize violently the existing order of things....
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
Prayer to be made for all persons, since the grace of the gospel makes no difference of ranks or stations.(1-7)
How men and women ought to behave, both in their religious and common life.(8-15)
**Verses 1-7**
The disciples of Christ must be praying people; all, without distinction of nation, sect, rank, or party. Our duty as Christians, is summed up in t...
Read full commentary →In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
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<strong>In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works</strong>—Paul shifts to Titus personally. περὶ πάντα (peri panta, in all things/concerning everything) is comprehensive. παρεχόμενος σεαυτὸν τύπον (parechomenos seauton typon, presenting yourself as an example/pattern) means embodied teaching. τύπος (typos, type/pattern/model) suggests an impression left in wax—others should be able to ...
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(7) **In all things shewing thyself a pattern** **of good works.**—Here St. Paul shows Titus that his especial work is the instruction of no one peculiar class or order, or age or sex, but that he is so to fashion his whole life that it may afford a “pattern” to all—men and women, bond as well as free; in all things a ceaseless activity was prescribed to the superintending presbyter in Crete. In e...
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**11. According to the glorious gospel--**The Christian's freedom from the law as a sanctifier, as well as a justifier, implied in the previous, 1Ti 1:9, 10, is what this 1Ti 1:11 is connected with. This exemption of the righteous from the law, and assignment of it to the lawless as its true object, is "according to the Gospel of the glory (so the Greek, compare Note, see on 2Co 4:4) of the blesse...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
Prayer to be made for all persons, since the grace of the gospel makes no difference of ranks or stations.(1-7)
How men and women ought to behave, both in their religious and common life.(8-15)
**Verses 1-7**
The disciples of Christ must be praying people; all, without distinction of nation, sect, rank, or party. Our duty as Christians, is summed up in t...
Read full commentary →Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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<strong>Sound speech, that cannot be condemned</strong>—λόγον ὑγιῆ ἀκατάγνωστον (logon hygiē akatagnōston, healthy speech beyond reproach). ὑγιής (hygiēs, healthy) recalls medical metaphor; ἀκατάγνωστος (akatagnōstos, irreproachable/not able to be condemned) means critics find no legitimate fault. This requires both truthfulness (content) and winsomeness (manner). Proverbs 15:1-2 warns that even t...
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(8) **Sound speech, that cannot be condemned.**—The substance of Titus’ teaching, whether in the more private intercourse with individuals or in his preaching in the Christian gatherings, must be healthy, practical, manly, in contrast to the sickly, morbid, fanciful instruction the false teachers of Crete were in the habit of giving. His words, too, must be well weighed and thoughtful, as well as ...
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12. The honor done him in having the Gospel ministry committed to him suggests the digression to what he once was, no better (1Ti 1:13) than those lawless ones described above (1Ti 1:9, 10), when the grace of our Lord (1Ti 1:14) visited him.
**And--**omitted in most (not all) of the oldest manuscripts.
**I thank--**Greek, "I have (that is, feel) gratitude."
**enabled me--**the same Greek ver...
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**Verses 8-15**
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith...
Read full commentary →Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; answering: or, gainsaying
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<strong>Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters</strong>—δούλους (doulous, slaves) describes involuntary servitude, not mere employment. ὑποτάσσεσθαι (hypotassesthai, to submit/be subject to) is present infinitive: continuous submission. ἰδίοις δεσπόταις (idiois despotais, their own masters)—δεσπότης (despotēs, master/lord) implies absolute authority. <strong>And to please them well ...
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(9) **Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters.**—The accurate translation here is *bond servants.* The words in this and the following verse, it must be remembered, are addressed to “slaves.” With some special reference to the peculiar circumstances of the Church in Crete, St. Paul had been giving general directions to his representative (Titus 2:1-8) respecting instruction and advic...
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**13. Who was before--**Greek, "Formerly being a blasphemer." "Notwithstanding that I was before a blasphemer," &c. (Ac 26:9, 11).
**persecutor--**(Ga 1:13).
**injurious--**Greek, "insulter"; one who acts injuriously from arrogant contempt of others. Translate, Ro 1:30, "despiteful." One who added insult to injury. Bengel translates, "a despiser." I prefer the idea, contumelious to others ...
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**Verses 8-15**
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith...
Read full commentary →Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
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<strong>Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity</strong>—μὴ νοσφιζομένους (mē nosphizomenous, not embezzling/pilfering/misappropriating) addresses petty theft. Slaves had access to household goods; temptation to pilfer was constant. Instead, ἀλλὰ πᾶσαν πίστιν ἐνδεικνυμένους ἀγαθήν (alla pasan pistin endeiknymenous agathēn, demonstrating all good fidelity/faithfulness)—comprehensive trustwort...
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(10) **Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity.**—It must be remembered that many of the slaves in the Roman empire were employed in other duties besides those connected with the house or on the farm. Some were entrusted with shops, and these being left often quite to themselves, of course great opportunities for dishonesty and fraud were constantly present. Others received an elaborate trai...
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**14. And--**Greek, "But." Not only so (was mercy shown me), but
**the grace--**by which "I obtained mercy" (1Ti 1:13).
**was exceeding abundant--**Greek, "superabounded." Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" (Ro 5:20).
**with faith--**accompanied with faith, the opposite of "unbelief" (1Ti 1:13).
**love--**in contrast to "a blasphemer, persecutor, and injurious."
**which is i...
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**Verses 8-15**
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith...
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For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, hath: or, to all men, hath appeared
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<strong>For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men</strong>—γάρ (gar, for) signals theological foundation for the ethics (2:1-10). ἐπεφάνη (epephanē, has appeared/dawned) recalls the Epiphany—Christ's incarnation making invisible grace visible. ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ σωτήριος (hē charis tou theou hē sōtērios, the saving grace of God). πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις (pasin anthrōpois, to al...
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(11) **For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.**—More accurately translated, *For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men.* “For” gives the ground, the base upon which the practical exhortations to freemen as well as to bond-servants, contained in Titus 2:1-10, rest. These words might be paraphrased thus: “Yes, exhort all classes and orders, eve...
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**15. faithful--**worthy of credit, because "God" who says it "is faithful" to His word (1Co 1:9; 1Th 5:24; 2Th 3:3; Re 21:5; 22:6). This seems to have become an axiomatic saying among Christians the phrase, "faithful saying," is peculiar to the Pastoral Epistles (1Ti 2:11; 4:9; Tit 3:8). Translate as Greek, "Faithful is the saying."
**all--**all possible; full; to be received by all, and with a...
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**Verses 8-15**
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith...
Read full commentary →Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
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<strong>Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts</strong>—παιδεύουσα ἡμᾶς (paideuousa hēmas, disciplining/training us) depicts grace as παιδαγωγός (paidagōgos, tutor/trainer). Grace isn't passive but actively educative. The curriculum has negative and positive: ἀρνησάμενοι (arnēsamenoi, having denied/renounced) τὴν ἀσέβειαν (tēn asebeian, ungodliness—irreverence toward God) καὶ τὰς ...
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(12) **Teaching us.**—Literally, *disciplining us; *educating us by life’s sad experiences. God’s grace is in truth a stern discipline of self-denial and training for higher things.
**Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts.**—More accurately, *to the intent that, having denied, *&c. The object of the loving discipline of our Father in heaven is that we, having done with those things in life which a...
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**16. Howbeit--**Greek, "But"; contrasting his own conscious sinfulness with God's gracious visitation of him in mercy.
**for this cause--**for this very purpose.
**that in me--**in my case.
**first--**"foremost." As I was "foremost" (Greek for chief, 1Ti 1:15) in sin, so God has made me the "foremost" sample of mercy.
**show--**to His own glory (the middle Greek, voice), Ep 2:7.
**all l...
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**Verses 8-15**
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith...
Read full commentary →Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; glorious: Gr. the appearance of the glory of the great God, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ
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<strong>Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ</strong>—προσδεχόμενοι (prosdechomenoi, awaiting/expecting) τὴν μακαρίαν ἐλπίδα (tēn makarian elpida, the blessed hope). καὶ ἐπιφάνειαν (kai epiphaneian, and appearing/manifestation) τῆς δόξης (tēs doxēs, of the glory) τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ (tou megalou theou ka...
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(13) **Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing.**—The Greek should here be rendered, *looking for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory.* And that holy life, just urged on the believer, of quiet self-restraint, of love to others, of piety towards God, must be lit up by a blessed hope, by a hope which is far more than a hope; that holy life of the faithful must be a cont...
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17. A suitable conclusion to the beautifully simple enunciation of the Gospel, of which his own history is a living sample or pattern. It is from the experimental sense of grace that the doxology flows [Bengel].
**the King, eternal--**literally, "King of the (eternal) ages." The Septuagint translates Ex 15:18, "The Lord shall reign for ages and beyond them." Psa 145:13, Margin, "Thy kingdom is a...
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**Verses 8-15**
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith...
Read full commentary →Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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<strong>Who gave himself for us</strong>—ὃς ἔδωκεν ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν (hos edōken heauton hyper hēmōn)—ὑπέρ (hyper, for/on behalf of/in place of) indicates substitutionary atonement. Christ's self-giving (ἔδωκεν) was voluntary (John 10:18). <strong>That he might redeem us from all iniquity</strong> (ἵνα λυτρώσηται ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης ἀνομίας, hina lytrōsētai hēmas apo pasēs anomias)—λυτρόω (lytroō, redee...
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(14) **Who gave himself for** us.—(See Galatians 1:4; Ephesians 5:25.) These words take up the thought expressed in the term “Saviour” of the last verse. “Himself,” His whole self, as has been well said, “the greatest gift ever given;” “for us,” that is, on our behalf.
**That he might redeem us from all iniquity.**—That He for us might pay a ransom, the ransom being His precious blood. Our Saviour...
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18. He resumes the subject begun at 1Ti 1:3. The conclusion (apodosis) to the foregoing, "as I besought thee ... charge" (1Ti 1:3), is here given, if not formally, at least substantially.
**This charge--**namely, "that thou in them (so the Greek) mightest war," that is, fulfil thy high calling, not only as a Christian, but as a minister officially, one function of which is, to "charge some that ...
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**Verses 8-15**
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith...
Read full commentary →These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
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<strong>These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority</strong>—three imperatives: λάλει (lalei, speak/proclaim), παρακάλει (parakalei, exhort/encourage), ἔλεγχε (elegche, rebuke/reprove). μετὰ πάσης ἐπιταγῆς (meta pasēs epitagēs, with all authority/commandment)—ἐπιταγή (epitagē) is military command language. Titus must proclaim, encourage, and correct with full apostolic authority,...
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(15) **These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority.**—These words are the conclusion of this part of the Letter of St. Paul to Titus. A new division of the Epistle begins immediately after this verse with the third chapter. He is to speak the words—many of them sharp and bitter—told him by St. Paul; he is to remember now to exhort, now to rebuke, and all this “with authority,” as...
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**19. Holding--**Keeping hold of "faith" and "good conscience" (1Ti 1:5); not "putting the latter away" as "some." Faith is like a very precious liquor; a good conscience is the clean, pure glass that contains it [Bengel]. The loss of good conscience entails the shipwreck of faith. Consciousness of sin (unrepented of and forgiven) kills the germ of faith in man [Wiesinger].
**which--**Greek sing...
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**Verses 8-15**
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith...
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