Titus 2:1
Wholesome — Restoring and preserving spiritual health.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wholesome — Restoring and preserving spiritual health.... [ Continue Reading ]
Vigilant — As veteran soldiers, not easily to be surprised. Patience — A virtue particularly needful for and becoming them. Serious — Not drolling or diverting on the brink of eternity.... [ Continue Reading ]
In behaviour — The particulars whereof follow. As becometh holiness — Literally, observing an holy decorum. Not slanderers — Or evil — speakers. Not given to much wine — If they use a little for their often infirmities. Teachers — Age and experience call them so to be. Let them teach good only.... [ Continue Reading ]
That they instruct the young women — These Timothy was to instruct himself; Titus, by the elder women. To love their husbands, their children — With a tender, temperate, holy, wise affection. O how hard a lesson.... [ Continue Reading ]
Discreet — Particularly in the love of their children. Chaste — Particularly in the love of their husbands. Keepers at home — Whenever they are not called out by works of necessity, piety, and mercy. Good — Well tempered, sweet, soft, obliging. Obedient to their husbands — Whose will, in all things... [ Continue Reading ]
To be discreet — A virtue rarely found in youth.... [ Continue Reading ]
Showing thyself a pattern — Titus himself was then young. In the doctrine which thou teachest in public: as to matter, uncorruptness; as to the manner of delivering it, seriousness — Weightiness, solemnity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wholesome speech — In private conversation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Please them in all things — Wherein it can be done without sin. Not answering again — Though blamed unjustly. This honest servants are most apt to do. Not stealing — Not taking or giving any thing without their master's leave: this fair — spoken servants are apt to do.... [ Continue Reading ]
Showing all good fidelity — Soft, obliging faithfulness That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour — More than St. Paul says of kings. How he raises the lowness of his subject! So may they, the lowness of their condition.... [ Continue Reading ]
The saving grace of God — So it is in its nature, tendency, and design. Hath appeared to all men — High and low.... [ Continue Reading ]
Instructing us — All who do not reject it. That, having renounced ungodliness — Whatever is contrary to the fear and love of God. And worldly desires — Which are opposite to sobriety and righteousness. We should live soberly — In all purity and holiness. Sobriety, in the scripture sense, is rather t... [ Continue Reading ]
Looking — With eager desire. For that glorious appearing — Which we hope for. Of the great God, even our Saviour Jesus Christ — So that, if there be (according to the Arian scheme) a great God and a little God, Christ is not the little God, but the great one.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who gave himself for us — To die in our stead. That he might redeem us — Miserable bondslaves, as well from the power and the very being, as from the guilt, of all our sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
Let no man despise thee — That is, let none have any just cause to despise thee. Yet they surely will. Men who know not God will despise a true minister of his word.... [ Continue Reading ]