Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Titus 3:11
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.
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.
Verse 11. _IS SUBVERTED_] _Is turned out of the way_ in which he may be saved, and consequently _sinneth_-enters into that way that leads to destruction. _BEING CONDEMNED OF HIMSELF._] This refers t...
KNOWING THAT HE THAT IS SUCH IS SUBVERTED - Literally, “is turned out;” or, “is changed,” i. e., for the worse. He has gone from the right way, and therefore he should be rejected. AND SINNETH, BEING...
III. IN RELATION TO THE WORLD AND FALSE TEACHERS CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Instructions (Titus 3:1)_ 2. Warnings (Titus 3:9) 3. Directions (Titus 3:12)...
TITUS 3:8 _B_ - TITUS 3:11. FINAL CHARGE TO TITUS. (_a)_ Maintain good works a characteristic demand in the Pastorals; (_b_) avoid useless controversy (_cf._ 1 Timothy 1:3 *); (_c_) shun the factious...
THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN (Titus 3:1-2)...
This is a saying which we are bound to believe--and I want you to keep on affirming these things--that those who have put their faith in God must think and plan bow to practise fine deeds. These are f...
KNOWING. App-132. SUBVERTED. Greek. _ekstrephomai_. Only here. SINNETH. App-128. CONDEMNED, &c. Greek. _autokatakritos_. Only here....
he that is _such is subverted_ IS PERVERTED, the word is used by Lucian for -turning inside out," in LXX. for -a very froward generation," Deuteronomy 32:20. Vulg. has -subversus," but Theod. Mops. La...
FINAL INJUNCTIONS. (_a_) MAINTAIN GOOD WORKS...
10, 11. (_c_) SHUN OBSTINATE HERETICS...
ΕἸΔῺΣ ὍΤΙ ἘΞΈΣΤΡΑΠΤΑΙ Ὁ ΤΟΙΟΥ͂ΤΟΣ. _Knowing_, as you do, _that such an one is perverted_. ἐκστρέφεσθαι does not occur again in the N.T., but cp. Deuteronomy 32:20; Amos 6:12. The use of τοιοῦτος is t...
ΕΪΔΏΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со значением _praes.._ ΈΞΈΣΤΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. med. от_ ΈΚΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G1612) отвращаться, отворачиваться, извращаться, искажаться (RWP). ΤΟΙΟΎΤΟ...
TRUTH AND ERROR Titus 3:8-11 _TEXT 3:8-11_ 8 Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to ma...
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, —This person is poison and as such will only serve to poison others.and sinneth, —He is a rank sinner. He has repeatedly had the truth brought before him but...
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. Knowing-by the ill success of your admonitions. IS SUBVERTED [ exestraptai (G1612)] - is perverted; literally, turn...
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...
THE SUBSTANCE AND MANNER OF THE TEACHING TO BE GIVEN. FAREWELL 1-15. 'Remind the Cretans to be loyal citizens, good neighbours. As, through no merit of ours, God won us to Himself, so we must live go...
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN V1 Remind the people about these things. The people should let the government and the rulers h...
When a person keeps arguing, he can cause trouble. He is proud and he will not listen to other people. He has decided that he alone is right. His attitude is *sinful. A person who is like that can con...
KNOWING THAT HE THAT IS SUCH IS SUBVERTED, AND SINNETH, BEING CONDEMNED OF HIMSELF. — Better rendered, _is perverted and sinneth, being self-condemned._ Inasmuch as thou knowest, seeing that thy repro...
CHAPTER 26 THE MEANING OF HERESY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND THE APOSTLE'S DIRECTIONS RESPECTING THE TREATMENT OF HERETICAL PERSONS. - Titus 3:10 IT is in connection with this instruction respecting th...
To sum up what I have been saying: Belief in God is not a matter of theory or of speculation, but of practice; it must be accompanied by good works. This true religion unites the beautiful and the pro...
εἰδώς : _since thou mayest know_. ἐξέστραπται : _subversus est_. Argument with a man whose basal mental convictions differ from your own, or whose mind has had a twist, is mere waste of breath. αὐτοκ...
MAINTAINING GOOD WORKS Titus 3:8 It is wise advice that we should try to shun controversy and disputations. Small benefit accrues from such methods of advancing the truth. After all, the Lord's test...
The final section of the epistle has to do with the Church and the State, dealing with the duty of the Church, arguments impelling to the fulfilment of duty, and the method of realization. The duty of...
A RESPONSE TO THE FALSE TEACHERS The false teachers would have had one believe salvation was through works of the law of Moses. However, Paul has just shown it is by God's mercy which man finds throug...
Knowing that he that is such a one is subverted: [4] a metaphor, from a house that is thrown down, even to the foundation, by the Greek. He speaks of heretics whose obstinacy seems evident, for no one...
(9) В¶ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. (10) A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonit...
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...
11_Knowing that he who is such is ruined _He declares that man to be “ruined,” as to whom there is no hope of repentance, because, if our labor could bring back any man to the right path, it should by...
With respect to the conduct of Christians towards the world, grace has banished violence, and the spirit of rebellion and resistance which agitates the heart of those who believe hot, and which has it...
KNOWING THAT HE THAT IS SUCH IS SUBVERTED,.... Or overturned and demolished; he is like an edifice, that is not only decaying, and falling, but is entirely everted, and pulled down; so that there is n...
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. Ver. 11. _Is subverted_] Gr. εξεστραπται, Is turned topsy turvy, as a tumbler that hath his heels in the air and hi...
_A man that is a heretic_ Greek, αιρετικον, _a party_ or _schism-maker_, namely, in the church, among the true, genuine people of God; or one that causes divisions among those that are united in Chris...
SUBVERTED; turned from the right way. SINNETH; by embracing the side of error and sin. CONDEMNED OF HIMSELF; by his own conduct and conscience....
KNOWING THAT HE THAT IS SUCH IS SUBVERTED AND SINNETH, BEING CONDEMNED OF HIMSELF. Firm adherence to the full evangelical truth in both doctrine and admonition had been urged by the apostle in the las...
THE CONDUCT OF TITUS TOWARD FALSE TEACHERS AND HERETICS....
Though we are not of this world, as the blessed hope of Chapter 2:13 reminds us, yet while in it, our relationships toward it are to bear true Christian character. God has Himself constituted proper a...
8-11 When the grace of God towards mankind has been declared, the necessity of good works is pressed. Those who believe in God, must make it their care to maintain good works, to seek opportunities f...
OLBGrk; IS SUBVERTED; ezestraptai, is turned out of the true and right way and road; AND SINNETH, and is a transgressor, BEING CONDEMNED OF HIMSELF, condemned of his own conscience; for he who spends...
Cyprian Epistle LXXIII But if everywhere heretics are called nothing else than adversaries and antichrists, if they are pronounced to be people to be avoided, and to be perverted and condemned of the...
Titus 3:11 knowing G1492 (G5761) that G3754 person G5108 warped G1612 (G5769) and G2532 sinning G264 ...
Titus 3:11. Such failure in admonishing shows the man had become ‘perverted' a self-condemned sinner, because ‘doing in his own case what in general he condemns' (Ellicott)....
_What Titus is to teach on the duties of social life_ (Titus 3:1-2) _enforced by a long argument drawn from the change which Christians had them-selves experienced through grace_ (Titus 3:3-7) _Exhort...
IS PERVERTED (εξεστραπτα). Perfect passive indicative of εκστρεφω, old word to turn inside out, to twist, to pervert. Only here in N.T.SELF-CONDEMNED (αυτοκατακριτος). Only known example of this...
SINNETH SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,_ You see, they were a rough, wild, rebellious people in Crete, and Christ...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekne...
CONTENTS: Further instructions concerning pastoral work of a true minister. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Artemas, Tychicus, Zenas, Apollos. CONCLUSION: The ministers of Christ...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers._ See on Romans 13:1. Titus 3:5. _Not by works of righteousness which we have done._ Good works being strongly enforced here, we...
HIS SINS PROVE THAT HE IS WRONG. It is a waste of time to argue with such a person. He is self-condemned, because his separation from the church is due to his own act. Paul would say this one is conde...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 3:9 The Problem Restated: False Teachers. Paul returns to the problem of false teachers. Thus, the discussion of gospel living (Titus 2:1) is followed by discussio
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 3:10 HAVE NOTHING MORE TO DO WITH HIM. The NT is clear about seeking the repentance of such sinners. It is equally clear that refusal to change eventually shows that one is not in...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 3:9. AVOID.—As in 2 Timothy 2:16. “The meaning seems to come from a number of persons falling back from an object of fear or loathing and standing at a distance...
EXPOSITION TITUS 3:1 In _subjection _for _subject, _A.V.; _rulers _for _principalities. _A.V.; _to authorities _for _and powers, _A.V. and T.R.; _to be obedient _for _to obey magistrates, _A.V.; _un...
Ver. 11. _Knowing that such an one is perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned._ The language throughout is very strong: first he is _perverted_ the rendering of Tyndale, Cranmer, and Gen., and up...
But put them in mind to be subject to the principalities and powers, and to obey the magistrates, and to be ready to every good work (Titus 3:1), So here as in many other places, the Christian is exho...
1 Timothy 1:19; 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Timothy 2:14; Acts 13:46; Acts 15:24
Is subverted [ε ξ ε σ τ ρ α π τ α ι]. N. T. o. More than turned away from the right path : rather, turned inside out. Comp. LXX, Deuteronomy 32:20. Sinneth [α μ α ρ τ α ν ε ι]. See on 1 John 1:9; Matt...