Titus 2:11

For the grace of God -Grace" is well defined as - Loveimparting itselfand producing its own image and likeness." Hence the fitness of the three words in the Apostolic Valediction which is also a Benediction: -The Graceof our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Loveof God, and the Communionof the Holy Ghost," 2 Corinthians 13:14. The stress, from the order of the words, is on -appeared" and -to all men"; and the article before -bringing salvation" should now (owing to the additional authority of Cod. Sin. against it) be omitted, making the adjective into a predicate. For the grace of God was truly manifested, bringing salvation to all men. The verb occurs Titus 3:4 and Luke 1:79, the dayspring from on high shall visit us, to shine uponthem that sit in darkness," from which hymn the word may well have been taken. -The hymn of prophecy became the fact of history." The light of God's Grace dawned on the world at the birth of Christ. The aorist marks the certainty of the event itself, that it took its place in history.