Titus 3:1
Remind them — All the Cretan Christians. To be subject — Passively, not resisting. To principalities — Supreme. And powers — Subordinate governors. And to obey — Them actively, so far as conscience permits.... [ Continue Reading ]
Remind them — All the Cretan Christians. To be subject — Passively, not resisting. To principalities — Supreme. And powers — Subordinate governors. And to obey — Them actively, so far as conscience permits.... [ Continue Reading ]
To speak evil — Neither of them nor any man. Not to be quarrelsome — To assault none. To be gentle — When assaulted. Toward all men — Even those who are such as we were.... [ Continue Reading ]
For we — And as God hath dealt with us, so ought we to deal with our neighbour. Were without understanding — Wholly ignorant of God. And disobedient — When he was declared to us.... [ Continue Reading ]
When the love of God appeared — By the light of his Spirit to our inmost soul.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not by works — In this important passage the apostle presents us with a delightful view of our redemption. Herein we have, The cause of it; not our works or righteousness, but "the kindness and love of God our Saviour." The effects; which are, Justification; "being justified," pardoned and accepted... [ Continue Reading ]
Be careful to excel in good works — Though the apostle does not lay these for the foundation, yet he brings them in at their proper place, and then mentions them, not slightly, but as affairs of great importance. He desires that all believers should be careful — Have their thoughts upon them: use th... [ Continue Reading ]
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 that obstinately persists in contending about "foolish questions," and thereby occasions strife and an... [ Continue Reading ]
Such an one is perverted — In his heart, at least. And sinneth, being self — condemned — Being convinced in his own conscience that he acts wrong.... [ Continue Reading ]
When I shall send Artemas or Tychicus — To succeed thee in thy office. Titus was properly an evangelist, who, according to the nature of that office, had no fixed residence; but presided over other elders, wherever he travelled from place to place, assisting each of the apostles according to the mea... [ Continue Reading ]
Send forward Zenas the lawyer — Either a Roman lawyer or an expounder of the Jewish law.... [ Continue Reading ]
And let ours — All our brethren at Crete. Learn — Both by thy admonition and example. Perhaps they had not before assisted Zenas and Apollos as they ought to have done.... [ Continue Reading ]