Titus 2:1-10

Teaching on Christian Behaviour.

(a) Titus 2:1. Duty of Different Classes. In contrast with the errorists-' irrefevances, Titus must continually inculcate right conduct. This is defined for (a) old men, (b) old women, (c) young women, (d) younger men, (e) slaves. The strongest argument for truth is the moral life it produces, even in a slave (Titus 2:10; contrast Titus 2:5; Titus 1:16). This fact Titus himself must remember

Titus 2:3. reverent: better, reverend (cf. 1 Timothy 2:10). teachers: i.e. in private (see 1 Timothy 2:12).

Titus 2:4. love husbands, children: inscriptions show these words to have been current in this very combination (Deissmann, Bible Studies, p. 255).

Titus 2:5. workers at home: the true reading may be keepers at home (cf. 1 Timothy 5:13 f.). subjection: Colossians 3:18; Ephesians 5:22. that, etc.: Isaiah 52:5 (cf. Romans 2:24; 1 Timothy 6:1).

Titus 2:7. doctrine: rather, teaching; so perhaps elsewhere in these epistles.

Titus 2:8. he that, etc.: the false teacher or the heathen, not Satan (Chrysostom).

Titus 2:9. 1. Tim. 6:1 f.* gainsaying: includes, but transcends, answering again (AV).