Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV " For who of those who are wise would not choose to reign in God, and even to serve? So some "confess that they know God," according to the apostle; "but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate."[109]
Verse Titus 1:16. _THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD_] He still speaks concerning the unbelieving Jews, the seducing teachers, and those who had been seduced by their bad doctrine. None were so full of...
THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD - That is, the Jewish teachers particularly, who are referred to in Titus 1:14. All those persons were professors of religion, and claimed that they had a special knowl...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The salutation (Titus 1:1)_ 2. Instructions concerning elders (Titus 1:5) 3. Warnings against false teachers (Titus 1:10)...
TITUS-' ATTITUDE TO FALSE TEACHERS. Loyalty to sound doctrine is needful for silencing many deceitful teachers not outside the Church (Hort), but self-constituted instructors within its borders, who r...
THE MAINSPRINGS OF APOSTLESHIP (Titus 1:1-4)...
For that very reason correct them with severity, that they may grow healthy in the faith and not pay attention to Jewish fables and to rules and regulations made by men who persist in turning their ba...
PROFESS. Greek. _homologea_. Compare Romans 10:9; Romans 10:10. KNOW, App-132. IN. by. No preposition. DENY. Greek. _arneomai_. See Titus 2:12. Compare...
_They profess that they know God_ Vulg. -confitentur"; -profess" is retained by R.V., though its modern sense is more generally -pretend": the Greek is -openly acknowledge," and the word is used of th...
ΘΕῸΝ ὉΜΟΛΟΥ͂ΣΙΝ ΕἸΔΈΝΑΙ. _They confess that they know God_. There is here no hint of Gnostic pretensions to esoteric knowledge of deity. It was ever the boast and the pride of Judaism that it was the...
THE HERETICAL TEACHERS AND TITUS’ DUTY IN REGARD TO THEM...
ΌΜΟΛΟΓΟΎΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΌΜΟΛΟΓΈΩ (G3670) исповедовать, проповедовать. ΕΊΔΈΝΑΙ _perf. act. inf. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со значением _praes._ Инфинитив как дополнение к предшеству...
DISCOURSE: 2261 FALSE PROFESSORS DESCRIBED Titus 1:16. _They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him_. AT a time when the profession of godliness is everywhere abounding, it is of pecu...
THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD,— This was their grand pretence for Christianity, and opposing St. Paul; namely, that they best understood the revelation of the mind and will of God in the gospel, as...
THE DESCRIPTION AND REFUTATION OF FALSE TEACHERS Titus 1:10-16. _TEXT 1:10-16_ 10 For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must...
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. —There are many who profess to be servants of God but fail to obey...
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. THEY PROFESS - i:e., make a profession acknowledging God. They ha...
1 Paul writes this letter in the character of a slave. This shows that the epistle deals with service. He adds the title apostle, to give weight to his injunctions. 2 Eonian life, usually called "eve...
GREETING. DIRECTIONS FOR ORGANISING THE CRETAN CHURCH 1-16. 'Paul an Apostle, to Titus his own son in the faith. In appointing elders in the towns of Crete, see to their character, and be sure that t...
A person who truly knows God will behave in a good way. But the false teachers behaved in a very bad way. This showed that they did not really know God. They declared that they were pure. But they cou...
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT THIS LETTER WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT TITUS Titus was a *Gentile Christian (Galatians 2:3). Titus had probably become a Christi...
THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD; BUT IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM. — These bitter foes to the truth, Titus must remember, will present themselves under the guise of friends. They will rank themselves in the...
θεὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι : “ _We know God_ ”; that was their profession of faith. They “gloried in God,” Romans 2:17. This is an allusion to the Jewish pride of religious privilege. Weiss points out t...
I have just mentioned rebuke as a necessary element in a presbyter's teaching. This is especially needful in dealing with Cretan heretics, in whom the Jewish strain is disagreeably prominent. Alike in...
REPROVE THOSE WHOSE WORKS DENY GOD Titus 1:10 The Judaizing teachers, who insisted that men must become Jews before they could be Christians, were always on Paul's heels, visiting his churches and di...
Titus is not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. From the letter we learn that he was a convert of the apostle. Moreover, we know that he was a Greek. This letter reached him while he was in Crete,...
SILENCE THE FALSE TEACHERS Elders must be able to silence, as when wind instruments cease to play, such false teachings (Titus 1:11). To stop them, they may answer them or deny them the pulpit, or bot...
_They confess that they know God. He speaks not therefore of those who were properly infidels, without the knowledge of the true God; so that it is foolish to pretend from hence, that every action of...
(12) One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. (13) This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in...
REFLECTIONS I desire to bless God the Holy Ghost, for all his abundant mercies in his divine teachings, and his holy scriptures of truth. And beg his grace, to give me a right understanding in all th...
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...
16_They profess that they know God _He treats those persons as they deserve; for hypocrites, who give their whole attention to minute observances, despise fearlessly what constitutes the chief part of...
The Epistle to Titus is occupied with the maintenance of order in the churches of God. The especial object of those written to Timothy as the maintenance of sound doctrine, although speaking of other...
THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD,.... That there is a God; that there is but one, only, true, and living God, the God of Israel, as professed by the Jews; and that this God is Father, Son, and Spirit,...
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny _him_, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Ver. 16. _They profess that they know_] _Aliud in titulo, aliud i...
_Unto the pure_ Namely, believers whose hearts are purified by faith, Acts 15:9; _all things are pure_ All kinds of meats are lawful to be used; _but unto them that are defiled_ Who are still under th...
IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM; they show that they have no such knowledge. Their words and works disagree. UNTO EVERY GOOD WORK REPROBATE; rejected as men given over to iniquity, from whom no good work is t...
THE FALSE TEACHERS CHARACTERIZED AND THE QUESTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM DISCUSSED....
THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD; BUT IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM, BEING ABOMINABLE AND DISOBEDIENT AND UNTO EVERY GOOD WORK REPROBATE. The term "objectors" or "gainsayers" used by the apostle in the previo...
Paul writes both as a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, so that in the epistle considerate care is mingled with firm authority. His basis of writing is, first, the faith of God's elect; t...
REPROBATE: Or, void of judgment...
10-16 False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose such in good time, that their folly being made manifest, they may go no further They had a base end in what they did; serving a worl...
OLBGrk; THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD; he is speaking of the Jews, who (all of them) professed to know and to believe one living and true God. BUT IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM; but they lived like atheist...
Titus 1:16 profess G3670 (G5719) know G1492 (G5760) God G2316 but G1161 works G2041 deny G720 ...
Titus 1:16. It was part of the religious ‘confession' of these errorists, that the knowledge of God was their own (in an exceptional degree?) _;_ practically they denied what in words they confessed....
THEY PROFESS (ομολογουσιν). Present active indicative of ομολογεω, common verb (ομου, λεγω) as in Romans 10:10. Ειδενα (know) is second perfect active infinitive of οιδα in indirect assertion.BY TH...
While reading this chapter, we must understand that Titus was sent to Crete, to superintend the preaching of the gospel throughout that island. Crete was at that time inhabited by a people who were on...
CONTENTS: Divine order for local churches. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: Divine faith rests not on fallible reasonings and opinions of men, but on the infallible Word of God, the...
Titus 1:1. _Paul, a servant of God,_ and not a servant of Moses. This style is much the same as in 2 Timothy 1:1, respecting the promise of eternal life. This promise is _according to the faith of God...
BUT THEIR ACTIONS DENY IT. They boasted about God (compare Romans 2:17), but their unholy lives proved they did not know Him! See also 2 Timothy 3:1-9....
_They __PROFESS_ _THAT_ _THEY_ _KNOW_ _GOD_ Conventional Christians I. Conventional Christians are professional atheists. II. Conventional Christians are practical atheists. 1. They deny God’s aut...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:10 The Problem: False Teachers. The description of the false teachers contrasts directly with the descriptions of what the elders should be (vv. Titus 1:5).
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 1:15. UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.—This saying concentrates all the opposition to fictitious holiness and purity which made the apostle the object of the c...
EXPOSITION TITUS 1:1 _Knowledge _for _acknowledging, _A.V.; _according to _for _after, _A.V. A SERVANT OF GOD (δοῦλος Θεοῦ); so in the superscriptions: Romans 1:1;...
Ver. 16. The description is wound up by a fearful announcement of their morally shipwrecked and hopeless condition: _they confess that they know God, but in works deny [Him] being abominable and disob...
Not much is known about Titus. Paul makes slight references to him in the Corinthian epistles. Outside of that we know very little about Titus, except what we can pick up in the book. Evidently he was...
1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 15:24; 1 Timothy 1:9; 2 Timothy 3:5; 2
They profess (oJmologousin). Better, confess. See on 2 Corinthians 9:13, and comp. 1 Timothy 6:12. Not loudly and publicly profess (as Huther), but confess as opposed to deny (John 1:20); comp....
THE EPISTLE TO TITUS Titus 1:1 _and Titus 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Epistle of Paul to Titus carries with it some very striking "admonitions which will be found most helpful to us. Titus was a yo...
Behold here the dismal character of many hypocritical persons in the Jewish church. They professed the knowledge of God, the true God, but in their works, in their actions, they denied him, and so bec...