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Titus 3:10
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition reject,
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition reject,
Verse 10. _A MAN THAT IS A HERETIC_] Generally defined, one that is obstinately attached to an opinion contrary to the peace and comfort of society, and will neither submit to Scripture nor reason. He...
A MAN THAT IS AN HERETIC - The word “heretic” is now commonly applied to one who holds some fundamental error of doctrine, “a person who holds and teaches opinions repugnant to the established faith,...
III. IN RELATION TO THE WORLD AND FALSE TEACHERS CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Instructions (Titus 3:1)_ 2. Warnings (Titus 3:9) 3. Directions (Titus 3:12)...
TITUS 3:8 _B_ - TITUS 3:11. FINAL CHARGE TO TITUS. (_a)_ Maintain good works a characteristic demand in the Pastorals; (_b_) avoid useless controversy (_cf._ 1 Timothy 1:3 *); (_c_) shun the factious...
THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN (Titus 3:1-2)...
This is a saying which we are bound to believe--and I want you to keep on affirming these things--that those who have put their faith in God must think and plan bow to practise fine deeds. These are f...
MAN. App-123. HERETIEK. Greek. _hairetikos_. Only here. See Acts 5:17. AFTER. App-104. THE. a. ADMONITION Sr. _nouthesia_. Elsewhere, 1 Corinthians 10:11.Ephesians 6:4
This and the next verse seem to close the last instruction; St Paul reviews the counsel given as to doctrine and discipline; similarly at the close of 1 Tim. See summary at beginning of ch. vi. _A man...
10, 11. (_c_) SHUN OBSTINATE HERETICS...
ΚΑῚ ΔΕΥΤΈΡΑΝ ΝΟΥΘΕΣΊΑΝ. This, the rec. reading, is supported by אACKLP and the great majority of MSS. and versions, and is indubitably the primitive reading; but the variants (νουθεσίαν καὶ [ἣ] δευτέρ...
FINAL INJUNCTIONS. (_a_) MAINTAIN GOOD WORKS...
ΑΙΡΕΤΙΚΌΣ (G141) еретический; самостоятельно выбранный, избранная самим человеком партия или секта; ересь, ΔΕΎΤΕΡΟΣ (G1208) второй, ΝΟΥΘΕΣΊΑ (G3559) наставление, предупреждение. Это попытка поправит...
A MAN THAT IS AN HERETIC, &C.— The word Αιρεσις, from the verb αιρεω, to _choose,_ signifies a _form_ or _mode_ of religious worship, discipline or opinion, which any one chooses, follows, and profess...
TRUTH AND ERROR Titus 3:8-11 _TEXT 3:8-11_ 8 Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to ma...
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; —This is the dogmatic person who has made his own belief the standard for truth. The factious man will divide the church if left...
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; HERETIC. Heresy, originally a division resulting from self-will; the individual doing and teaching what he chose independently...
14 The ransom of Christ has a present power. Lawlessness is that basic conception of sin in which it is viewed as a departure from the normal and natural course of things. The ransom Of Christ will ev...
THE SUBSTANCE AND MANNER OF THE TEACHING TO BE GIVEN. FAREWELL 1-15. 'Remind the Cretans to be loyal citizens, good neighbours. As, through no merit of ours, God won us to Himself, so we must live go...
HERETICK] A heretic, to St. Paul, was never one who held erroneous opinions only, but one whose error sprang from moral crookedness, issuing at last in evil life. There seems always a sensual element...
When a person keeps arguing, he can cause trouble. He is proud and he will not listen to other people. He has decided that he alone is right. His attitude is *sinful. A person who is like that can con...
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN V1 Remind the people about these things. The people should let the government and the rulers h...
A MAN THAT IS AN HERETICK. — The Greek word translated “heretick” in the New Testament occurs here only. The term “heresies” occurs twice (1 Corinthians 11:19; Galatians 5:20). In neither, however, of...
CHAPTER 26 THE MEANING OF HERESY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND THE APOSTLE'S DIRECTIONS RESPECTING THE TREATMENT OF HERETICAL PERSONS. - Titus 3:10 IT is in connection with this instruction respecting th...
αἱρετικὸν ἄνθρωπον : St. Paul passes from the reprehensible opinions to the man who propagates them. He is the same kind of man as the φιλόνεικος of 1 Corinthians 11:16; or “he that refuseth to hear t...
To sum up what I have been saying: Belief in God is not a matter of theory or of speculation, but of practice; it must be accompanied by good works. This true religion unites the beautiful and the pro...
MAINTAINING GOOD WORKS Titus 3:8 It is wise advice that we should try to shun controversy and disputations. Small benefit accrues from such methods of advancing the truth. After all, the Lord's test...
The final section of the epistle has to do with the Church and the State, dealing with the duty of the Church, arguments impelling to the fulfilment of duty, and the method of realization. The duty of...
A RESPONSE TO THE FALSE TEACHERS The false teachers would have had one believe salvation was through works of the law of Moses. However, Paul has just shown it is by God's mercy which man finds throug...
(4) A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; (4) The ministers of the word must at once cast off heretics, that is, those who stubbornly and seditiously disquiet the Ch...
A man that is, &c. Many ancient copies have this passage thus, Avoid a heretic after one reprehension. St. Irenæus, Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Ambrose, &c. and many ancient Greek copies, omit a seco...
(9) В¶ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. (10) A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonit...
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...
10_Avoid an heretical man _This is properly added; because there will be no end of quarrels and dispute, if we wish to conquer obstinate men by argument; for they will never want words, and they will...
With respect to the conduct of Christians towards the world, grace has banished violence, and the spirit of rebellion and resistance which agitates the heart of those who believe hot, and which has it...
A MAN THAT IS AN HERETIC,.... An heretic, according to the notation of the word, is either one that makes choice of an opinion upon his own judgment, contrary to the generally received sense of the ch...
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Ver. 10. _A man that is a heretic_] All heresies are found to flow (saith Chemnitius) either from the supercilious pride of Sam...
_A man that is a heretic_ Greek, αιρετικον, _a party_ or _schism-maker_, namely, in the church, among the true, genuine people of God; or one that causes divisions among those that are united in Chris...
A HERETIC; in New Testament usage, sectarist, attaching himself to a factious party that rejected sound doctrine and a godly life. THE FIRST AND SECOND ADMONITION; MATTHEW 18:15-17; ROMANS 16:17-18. K...
Though we are not of this world, as the blessed hope of Chapter 2:13 reminds us, yet while in it, our relationships toward it are to bear true Christian character. God has Himself constituted proper a...
8-11 When the grace of God towards mankind has been declared, the necessity of good works is pressed. Those who believe in God, must make it their care to maintain good works, to seek opportunities f...
OLBGrk; A MAN THAT IS AN HERETIC: two things make up a heretic according to the common acceptation of the term now: 1. An error in some matters of faith. 2. Stubbornness and contumacy in the holding...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I But as many as separate from the Church, and give heed to such old wives' fables as these, are truly self-condemned; and these men Paul commands us, "after a first an...
Titus 3:10 Reject G3868 (G5737) divisive G141 man G444 after G3326 first G3391 and G2532 second G1208 admonition...
Titus 3:10. Thus far of Titus' attitude to the errors; now, to the errorists. In Paul's sense, heretic comes nearer schismatic than what we now describe by the word. As in 1 Corinthians 11:19 and Gala...
_What Titus is to teach on the duties of social life_ (Titus 3:1-2) _enforced by a long argument drawn from the change which Christians had them-selves experienced through grace_ (Titus 3:3-7) _Exhort...
HERETICAL (αιρετικον). Old adjective from αιρεσις (αιρεομα, to choose), a choosing of a party (sect, Acts 5:17) or of teaching (2 Peter 2:1). Possibly a schism had been started here in Crete.REFUSE...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,_ You see, they were a rough, wild, rebellious people in Crete, and Christ...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekne...
CONTENTS: Further instructions concerning pastoral work of a true minister. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Artemas, Tychicus, Zenas, Apollos. CONCLUSION: The ministers of Christ...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers._ See on Romans 13:1. Titus 3:5. _Not by works of righteousness which we have done._ Good works being strongly enforced here, we...
GIVE AT LEAST TWO WARNINGS. Stupid arguments are dangerous things to the life of the congregation. Those who start trouble about such things must be dealt with firmly. THEN HAVE NOTHING MORE. This is...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 3:10 HAVE NOTHING MORE TO DO WITH HIM. The NT is clear about seeking the repentance of such sinners. It is equally clear that refusal to change eventually shows that one is not in...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 3:9 The Problem Restated: False Teachers. Paul returns to the problem of false teachers. Thus, the discussion of gospel living (Titus 2:1) is followed by discussio
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 3:9. AVOID.—As in 2 Timothy 2:16. “The meaning seems to come from a number of persons falling back from an object of fear or loathing and standing at a distance...
EXPOSITION TITUS 3:1 In _subjection _for _subject, _A.V.; _rulers _for _principalities. _A.V.; _to authorities _for _and powers, _A.V. and T.R.; _to be obedient _for _to obey magistrates, _A.V.; _un...
Ver. 10. _A heretical man, after one and a second admonition, shun._ The word αἱρετικὸν only in part corresponds to our term _heretical_; perhaps _schismatical_ or _factious_ would more nearly approac...
But put them in mind to be subject to the principalities and powers, and to obey the magistrates, and to be ready to every good work (Titus 3:1), So here as in many other places, the Christian is exho...
1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 Corinthians 5:4; 2 Corinthians 13:2; 2 John 1:10;...
A man that is an heretic [α ι ρ ε τ ι κ ο ν α ν θ ρ ω π ο ν]. Airetikov heretical, N. T. o. For airesiv heresy see on 1 Peter 2:1. Admonition [ν ο υ θ ε σ ι α ν]. Only here, 1 Corinthians 10:11; Ephes...
An heretic (after a first and second admonition) reject — Avoid, leave to himself. This is the only place, in the whole scripture, where this word heretic occurs; and here it evidently means, a man th...
Should the wayward be instructed or expelled from the church? PROBLEM: This verse says we should “reject” them, and in 1 Corinthians 5 the adulterous member was excommunicated (v. 5). But in 2 Timothy...
As if the apostle had said, Avoid and shun, and refuse communion with, him that doth obstinately persist in dangerous errors and heresies, and accordingly let him be excommunicated. Learn hence, 1. Wh...