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Titus 1:13
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith,
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith,
Verse.13. _THIS WITNESS IS TRUE._] What Epimenides said of them nearly 600 years before continued still to be true. Their original character had undergone no moral change. _REBUKE THEM SHARPLY_] αποτ...
THIS WITNESS IS TRUE - That is, this testimony long before borne by one of their own number, was true when the apostle wrote to Titus. The fact that this was the general Character of the people, was a...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The salutation (Titus 1:1)_ 2. Instructions concerning elders (Titus 1:5) 3. Warnings against false teachers (Titus 1:10)...
TITUS-' ATTITUDE TO FALSE TEACHERS. Loyalty to sound doctrine is needful for silencing many deceitful teachers not outside the Church (Hort), but self-constituted instructors within its borders, who r...
THE MAINSPRINGS OF APOSTLESHIP (Titus 1:1-4)...
For that very reason correct them with severity, that they may grow healthy in the faith and not pay attention to Jewish fables and to rules and regulations made by men who persist in turning their ba...
WITNESS. testimony. TRUE. App-175. WHEREFORE. on account of (Greek. _dia_ App-104.Titus 1:2; Titus 1:2) which. REBUKE. Greek. _elencho_. See Titus 1:9. Occurs also...
_This witness is true_ Not to be taken, as Dr Farrar says, _au pied de la lettre_, as though the Cretans were indiscriminately wicked. Nor to be taken as authority for -scolding" in the modern sermon....
ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΠΊΣΤΕΙ. א* omits ἐν, but the authority for its insertion is overwhelming. 13. ἩΜΑΡΤΥΡΊΑ ΑὝΤΗ ἘΣΤῚΝ�. _This witness is true_. St Paul deliberately assents to the truth of the proverbial judgem...
THE HERETICAL TEACHERS AND TITUS’ DUTY IN REGARD TO THEM...
ΑΙΤΊΑ (G156) причина, повод, ΈΛΕΓΧΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΕΛΈΓΧΩ (G1651) упрекать (2 Timothy 4:2). ΆΠΟΤΌΜΩΣ (G664) _adv._, сурово, строго, ΎΓΙΑΊΝΩΣΙΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΝΓΙΑΊΝΩ (G5198) чувс
SHARPLY— 'Αποτομως ;—_with a cutting severity._ The word is an allusion to a surgeon's cutting away the dead flesh, and that even to the quick. We are to observe, that the apostle speaks here of repro...
THE DESCRIPTION AND REFUTATION OF FALSE TEACHERS Titus 1:10-16. _TEXT 1:10-16_ 10 For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must...
This witness is true. — Paul confirms this particular testimony of the Cretan Epimenides. What Epimenides said of them nearly 600 years before continued still to be true. Their original character had...
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; THIS WITNESS - (though coming from a Cretian) "is true." SHARPLY - gentleness would not reclaim so perverse...
1 Paul writes this letter in the character of a slave. This shows that the epistle deals with service. He adds the title apostle, to give weight to his injunctions. 2 Eonian life, usually called "eve...
1:13 rebuke (a-8) _ Elenko_ , as ver. 9, and ch. 2.15....
GREETING. DIRECTIONS FOR ORGANISING THE CRETAN CHURCH 1-16. 'Paul an Apostle, to Titus his own son in the faith. In appointing elders in the towns of Crete, see to their character, and be sure that t...
Paul knew this famous phrase about the people who lived in Crete. Paul believed what Epimenides had said. Paul also knew it from his own experience, especially with the false teachers. So Titus had to...
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT THIS LETTER WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT TITUS Titus was a *Gentile Christian (Galatians 2:3). Titus had probably become a Christi...
THIS WITNESS IS TRUE. — St. Paul emphatically here endorses the very severe judgment which their own great prophet-poet had written on the national Cretan character. He (St. Paul) had lived long enoug...
CHAPTER 20 CHRISTIANITY AND UNCHRISTIAN LITERATURE. - Titus 1:12 THE hexameter verse which St. Paul here cites from the Cretan poet Epimenides is one of three quotations from profane literature which...
διʼ ἥν αἰτίαν : See on 2 Timothy 1:6. ἀποτόμως : _severely_. The noun ἀποτομία, _severitas_, occurs Romans 11:22. See Moulton and Milligan, _Expositor_, vii., vi. 192. ἵνα ὑγιαίνωσιν : See note on 1...
I have just mentioned rebuke as a necessary element in a presbyter's teaching. This is especially needful in dealing with Cretan heretics, in whom the Jewish strain is disagreeably prominent. Alike in...
REPROVE THOSE WHOSE WORKS DENY GOD Titus 1:10 The Judaizing teachers, who insisted that men must become Jews before they could be Christians, were always on Paul's heels, visiting his churches and di...
Titus is not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. From the letter we learn that he was a convert of the apostle. Moreover, we know that he was a Greek. This letter reached him while he was in Crete,...
SILENCE THE FALSE TEACHERS Elders must be able to silence, as when wind instruments cease to play, such false teachings (Titus 1:11). To stop them, they may answer them or deny them the pulpit, or bot...
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them (n) sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; (n) Clearly and plainly, and do not go about the bush with them....
_This testimony, or character, says the apostle, is true, by public fame of them, and therefore they must be rebuked sharply, [10] their condition and dispositions requiring it; which, therefore, is n...
(12) One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. (13) This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in...
The epistle to Titus has much in common with those to Timothy, as all must observe; not only as being addressed to a fellow-servant, and indeed a son in the faith, but in general similarity of charact...
13._This testimony is true. _(230) How worthiness soever the witness may have been, (231) yet the truth which has been spoken by him is acknowledged by Paul. The inhabitants of Crete, of whom he speak...
The Epistle to Titus is occupied with the maintenance of order in the churches of God. The especial object of those written to Timothy as the maintenance of sound doctrine, although speaking of other...
THIS WITNESS IS TRUE,.... The apostle confirms what the poet had said; he knew it to be fact from his own experience, and by the observation he had made when in the island: he does not say, that all t...
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Ver. 13. _Rebuke them sharply_] Gr. αποτομως, cuttingly, precisely, rigidly, severely, and to the quick. A me...
_One of themselves_ That is, one of their own countrymen, who could not be unacquainted with their conduct, or disposed to belie them; _even a prophet of their own_ This was the poet Epimenides, who,...
Paul writes both as a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, so that in the epistle considerate care is mingled with firm authority. His basis of writing is, first, the faith of God's elect; t...
10-16 False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose such in good time, that their folly being made manifest, they may go no further They had a base end in what they did; serving a worl...
OLBGrk; THIS WITNESS IS TRUE; this testimony of Epimenides is true, what I have found by experience, and those of them that in profession have embraced the Christian faith may have some tincture of th...
Titus 1:13 This G3778 testimony G3141 is G2076 (G5748) true G227 Therefore G1223 G3739 G156 rebuke...
Titus 1:13. Paul boldy adds his own testimony to base on it an exhortation to a sharp or severe handling of the people. REBUKE is ‘confute,' as in Titus 1:9 the elders were to do. SHARPLY, or unspa...
TESTIMONY (μαρτυρια). Of the poet Epimenides. Paul endorses it from his recent knowledge.SHARPLY (αποτομως). Old adverb from αποτομος (from αποτεμνω, to cut off), in N.T. only here and 2 Corinthi...
While reading this chapter, we must understand that Titus was sent to Crete, to superintend the preaching of the gospel throughout that island. Crete was at that time inhabited by a people who were on...
CONTENTS: Divine order for local churches. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: Divine faith rests not on fallible reasonings and opinions of men, but on the infallible Word of God, the...
Titus 1:1. _Paul, a servant of God,_ and not a servant of Moses. This style is much the same as in 2 Timothy 1:1, respecting the promise of eternal life. This promise is _according to the faith of God...
FOR THIS REASON. A healthy faith grows out of a holy life! Titus is to sharply rebuke their rebellion and false teaching (IN LOVE) SO that they will have a healthy faith!...
_The __CRETIANS_ _ARE_ _ALWAYS_ _LIARS_ A classical quotation It is not often that St. Paul quoted from the treasuries of classic literature, and when he did so he did not draw upon the most celebra...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:10 The Problem: False Teachers. The description of the false teachers contrasts directly with the descriptions of what the elders should be (vv. Titus 1:5).
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:12 CRETANS ARE ALWAYS LIARS, EVIL BEASTS, LAZY GLUTTONS. Crete was famous in the ancient world for its immorality. A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN. Paul does not criticize Cretan society...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 1:10. VAIN TALKERS.—Men of aimless speech, which is devoid of any good result. Men whose speech tendeth to poverty. DECEIVERS.—The word, which is peculiar to St....
EXPOSITION TITUS 1:1 _Knowledge _for _acknowledging, _A.V.; _according to _for _after, _A.V. A SERVANT OF GOD (δοῦλος Θεοῦ); so in the superscriptions: Romans 1:1;...
Not much is known about Titus. Paul makes slight references to him in the Corinthian epistles. Outside of that we know very little about Titus, except what we can pick up in the book. Evidently he was...
1 Timothy 4:6; 1 Timothy 5:20; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 7:8;...
Sharply [α π ο τ ο μ ω ς]. Only here and 2 Corinthians 13:10 (note). Paul has ajpotomia severity, Romans 11:22 (note). LXX, ajpotomwv severely, only Wisd. 5 22; ajpotomov severe (not in N. T.), Wisd....
THE EPISTLE TO TITUS Titus 1:1 _and Titus 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Epistle of Paul to Titus carries with it some very striking "admonitions which will be found most helpful to us. Titus was a yo...