Titus 3:11

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. Lat. -perversus." it does not occur again in N.T., the usual compound being with the preposition -through and through" instead of -out and out." Cf. Acts 20:30 -speaking perverse things," Philippians 2:15 -in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation." It cannot, as Professor Reynolds thinks, describe -the effect of the isolation" recommended, but is rather the state of obstinate wrongheadedness(to use a similar English metaphor), which, after two chances of enlightenment rejected, becomes wilful sin. The present tense should have its full force, is a wilful sinner. Cf. Ephesians 4:26 -Be ye angry and sin not," 1 John 3:6 -Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not," is not a sinner in wilful purpose and habit.

being condemned of himself Self-condemned, as such, by callousness to the two approaches of God's minister: the word does not occur again in N.T.