Titus 3:12-14

Personal directions. As to the conjectural chapter of biography of which we have traces here, see introduction, pp. 40 44. We may suppose that the object of the sending Tychicus or Artemas was to take the place of Titus during his stay with St Paul. From 2 Timothy 4:12, Tychicus would seem to have been sent to Ephesus, so that Artemas may have been finally chosen for Crete. Of him nothing is known. Tychicus is one of the most valued of the -fellow helpers," -the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord," entrusted with the Ephesian and Colossian letters, and the -comfortable words," five years before, in the enforced absence of the first imprisonment at Rome, Ephesians 6:21; Colossians 4:7.