Titus 1:2
Hope of Eternal Life.
I. Note the antiquity of this promise. It was made ages and ages ago.
There are two considerations, I imagine, in the Apostle's mind the
actual promise made in time, and the Divine purpose from which that
promise sprang, fixed in eternity; and he joins the two consid... [ Continue Reading ]
Titus 1:15
_(with Matthew 5:8)_
Purity.
The two texts are two motives. With one voice they enforce purity; but
each by its own argument and with its own persuasion. The one looks
rather at the present, the other at the future; the one sets before us
a practical effect of purity, the other a spiri... [ Continue Reading ]