Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Titus 2:15
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.
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.
Verse Titus 2:15. _THESE THINGS SPEAK_] That is, _teach_; for λαλει, _speak_, has the same meaning here as διδασκε, _teach_, which, as being synonymous, is actually the reading of the _Codex_ _Alexand...
THESE THINGS SPEAK AND EXHORT - Notes, 1 Timothy 6:2. AND REBUKE WITH ALL AUTHORITY - 1 Timothy 5:1, note, 20, note; 2 Timothy 4:2 note. The word “authority”
II. THINGS WHICH BECOME SOUND DOCTRINE CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Adorning the doctrine of our Saviour-God (Titus 2:1)_ 2. The grace of God and its work (Titus 2:11) Titus 2:1 “But speak thou the things which...
(_b_) TITUS 2:11. ITS DOCTRINAL BASIS. The transformed lives thus required from different groups are rendered possible by God's own grace, revealed in the Incarnation. This, for _all_ men (1 Timothy 2...
THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER (Titus 2:1-10) (1) The Senior Men (Titus 2:1-2)...
REBUKE. See Titus 1:9; Titus 1:13. WITH. App-104. AUTHORITY. The same Greek. word in Titus 1:3 is translated "commandment". NO MOM. no one. Greek. _medeis_. DESPISE. Greek. _periphroneo_. Onl
_These_things _speak, and exhort, and rebuke_ The three verbs rise as a climax, describing the degrees of earnestness and intensity to be put forth according to the occasion; -these things," all from...
TITUS TO SPEAK WITH AUTHORITY 15. ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ ΛΆΛΕΙ, _these things_, sc. what has gone before, _speak_; cp. 1 Timothy 6:2. ΚΑῚ ΠΑΡΑΚΆΛΕΙ ΚΑῚ ἜΛΕΓΧΕ ΜΕΤᾺ ΠΆΣΗΣ ἘΠΙΤΑΓΗ͂Σ, _and exhort and reprove with all a...
ΠΑΡΑΚΆΛΕΙ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) ободрять, побуждать, ΈΛΕΓΧΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΕΛΈΓΧΩ (G1651) убеждать, упрекать (2 Timothy 4:2). ΕΠΙΤΑΓΉ (G2003) повеление, приказ; здесь: ...
THE MOTIVES FOR CONDUCT Titus 2:11-15 _TEXT 2:11-15_ 11 For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts...
These things speak, — Titus was to teach all these things, both positive and negative, to the church in Crete.and exhort, — He was to encourage the brethren. It is important to encourage others while...
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. WITH ALL AUTHORITY, [ epitagees (G2003)] - 'authoritativeness' (Titus 1:13; Matthew 7:29, Jesus). Let no man...
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...
VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHRISTIAN LIFE AND DOCTRINE 1-15. 'In giving sound doctrine, to offset false teaching, put the first emphasis on the need of character, because Christ is our reward, and very...
LET NO MAN DESPISE THEE] i.e. push these counsels home so gravely and thoroughly that men will heed thee: cp. 1 Timothy 4:12....
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 WHAT TITUS HAD TO TEACH V1 But you, Titus, must teach the things that are true. V2 Teach the older men that they sho...
Paul urged Titus to continue what he had been doing. ‘Teach’ means to continue to speak about those things. Titus had to keep telling the Christians what God had done for them. He had to keep telling...
THESE THINGS SPEAK, AND EXHORT, AND REBUKE WITH ALL AUTHORITY. — These words are the conclusion of this part of the Letter of St. Paul to Titus. A new division of the Epistle begins immediately after...
CHAPTER 23 HOPE AS A MOTIVE POWER-THE PRESENT HOPES OF CHRISTIANS. - Titus 2:11 THERE are not many passages in the Pastoral Epistles which treat so plainly as this does of doctrine. As a rule St. Pau...
See on 1 Timothy 4:12. ταῦτα is best connected with λάλει only, and referred to the positive instructions of chap. 2, “the things which befit the sound doctrine”; while παρακάλει and ἔλεγχε represent...
The justification of this insistence on the universal necessity for right conduct is the all-embracing scope of the saving grace of God, which has visibly appeared as a call to repentance, a help to a...
HOW WE MAY “ADORN THE DOCTRINE” Titus 2:9 The servants addressed in this tender and priceless paragraph were household slaves, employed in the most menial drudgery, but they were taught that even the...
The apostle then proceeded to show what the behavior of aged men, aged women, and young men in the Church should be. In connection with the behavior of bond-servants Paul employed what is perhaps the...
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all (g) authority. Let no man despise thee. (g) With all authority possible....
REFLECTIONS READER! is there not renewed occasion at the close of this, and every Chapter, for all the marked attention, God the Holy Ghost hath shown the Church, in watching over the interests, and h...
(11) В¶ For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, (12) Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this pre...
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...
_SINCERITY OF LIFE_ ‘Let no man despise thee.’ Titus 2:15 The word for ‘despise’ which St. Paul uses here occurs nowhere else in the New Testament, and it suggests the possibility of a fault existi...
15_Speak these things, and exhort, and reprove _This conclusion is of the same meaning as if he enjoined Titus to dwell continually on that doctrine of edification, and never to grow weary, because it...
"Sound doctrine" takes account of all this, and, in its warnings and exhortations, maintains all these proprieties. This is the instruction which the apostle here gives to Titus, with regard to aged m...
THESE THINGS SPEAK AND EXHORT,.... Sound doctrine, the doctrine of grace, the doctrines of salvation and redemption by Christ, of peace, pardon, and cleansing by his blood; these speak out clearly, pl...
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. Ver. 15. _Let no man despise thee_] περιφρονειτα _Nemo te plus sapere ausit._ Or have occasion to think himself...
_These things_ Namely, concerning the universality of divine grace, and the excellent purposes for which it is given, the coming of Christ to judgment, the end for which he died during his first appea...
THESE THINGS; the duties he had mentioned, verses Titus 2:1-14. LET NO MAN DESPISE THEE; conduct in such a manner as to command the respect of all. Supreme love to Christ, manifested in acts of good-w...
THESE THINGS SPEAK, AND EXHORT, AND REBUKE WITH ALL AUTHORITY. LET NO MAN DESPISE THEE. It was a happy choice which made this passage, with the exception of the last verse, the Epistle lesson for the...
THE GRACE OF SALVATION AND ITS SANCTIFYING POWER....
In contrast to the vanity of others, as in the previous verses, Titus has pressed upon him his personal responsibility: "But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine." "Sound" has the force o...
11-15 The doctrine of grace and salvation by the gospel, is for all ranks and conditions of men. It teaches to forsake sin; to have no more to do with it. An earthly, sensual conversation suits not a...
THESE THINGS SPEAK, AND EXHORT; whatsoever I have in this Episple said unto thee, I have therefore spoke, that thou mightest speak to the same sense to others, and persuade them to the practice of the...
Titus 2:15 Speak G2980 (G5720) things G5023 G2532 exhort G3870 (G5720) and G2532 rebuke G1651 ...
Titus 2:14. FOR US, on our behalf. The design of Christ's self-offering to death was a moral one to set us free by payment of a ransom-price (see the root text in Matthew 20:28) from iniquity (or sin...
WITH ALL AUTHORITY (μετα πασης επιταγης). See 1 Corinthians 7:6; 2 Corinthians 8:8. Assertion of authority is sometimes necessary.LET NO MAN DESPISE THEE (μηδεις σου περιφρονειτω). Present active...
Titus 2:6. _Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded._ They are full of spirits, they are very sanguine, they are apt to be carried away with novelties; exhort them to have that which is thought...
Titus 2:1. _But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:_ There are certain things which are suitable to go with sound doctrine; they are meet and fit and appropriate thereto. Titus 2:2. _...
CONTENTS: Pastoral work of a true minister. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: The ministers of Christ should discharge their duties with faithfulness, being careful to teach only such trut...
Titus 2:1. _But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine._ Just the reverse of those men of tongue, reciting fables, instead of giving the fair illustration of truth, which “when unadorned is...
TEACH THESE THINGS. God's Plan for saving men; Christ-on-the-cross; the blessed Day when Christ will Come; the need for holy living and good works; etc. USE YOUR FULL AUTHORITY. As an _evangelist,_ he...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 2:15 After describing the gospel, Paul returns to giving Titus instructions (as in vv. Titus 2:1)....
EXPOSITION TITUS 2:1 _Befit _for _become, _A.V.; _the sound _for _sound, _A.V. BUT SPEAK THOU, etc. The apostle now brings out, in full couldst with the vain talk of the heretical teachers, the solid...
Ver. 15. _These things speak, and exhort, and reprove with all authority._ A short retrospective utterance, for the purpose of impressing upon the mind of Titus the importance of the things which had...
But he said to Titus, speak the things which become sound doctrine (Titus 2:1): Again, the emphasis and the exhortation is that of sound doctrine. Now, teach that the aged men (Titus 2:2), And this...
1 Timothy 4:12; 2 Timothy 4:2; Luke 4:36; Mark 1:22; Mark 1:27;...
THE BLESSED HOPE Titus 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Second Coming of Christ remains unto this hour as the Blessed Hope. It is the lamp that shineth in a dark place until the day dawns, and the daystar...
As if he had said, Let these necessary practical truths be the subject-matter of thy preaching, and according to the authority of thy office rebuke gainsayers, and let thy doctrine and behaviour in wi...