Even one of their own famous speakers described the people in Crete as bad. His name was Epimenides. He was a teacher and a poet. He lived about 600 years before Jesus was born. He said that:
1 They always told lies. The common phrase ‘to speak like a person in Crete’ meant ‘to tell a lie’.
2 They were as cruel as wild animals.
3 They were lazy people. They ate too much and drank too much wine.
Verse 12. _ONE OF THEMSELVES_, EVEN _A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN_] This was _Epimenides_, who was born at _Gnossus_, in Crete, and was reckoned by many the _seventh wise man_ of Greece, instead of _Perian...
ONE OF THEMSELVES - That is, one of the Cretans. The quotation here shows that Paul had his eye not only on the Jewish teachers there, but on the native Cretans. The meaning is, that, alike in referen...
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ONE. App-123. PROPHET. App-189. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct). App-6. To Paul,. prophet by repute only. It is supposed that the reference is to Epimenides. THE... BELLIES. Figure of speec...
_One of themselves_ Rather, ONE OF THEM, there being nothing to indicate emphasis till the next two words come, A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN; the force is, -there is a Cretan saying and by a prophet of thei...
THE HERETICAL TEACHERS AND TITUS’ DUTY IN REGARD TO THEM...
ΕἿΠΈΝ ΤΙΣ. So the rec. text with the majority of MSS.; א*G f g and the Bohairic version insert δὲ after εἷπεν. 12. ΕἾΠΈΝ ΤΙΣ ἘΞ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν ἼΔΙΟΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν ΠΡΟΦΉΤΗΣ, _one of themselves_, sc. the Cretans, _...
ΈΞ ΑΎΤΏΝ из них. Павел цитирует Эпименида из Кносса, Крит, религиозного учителя и чудотворца, жившего в шестом столетии до н. э. (ABD, 1:1206; Kelly; Lock; Dibelius; OCD, 399; KP, 2:319). ΪΔΙΟΣ ΑΎΤΏΝ...
ONE OF THEMSELVES—A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN— Epimenides, whose words St. Paul here quotes, is said by Diogenes Laertius to have been a great favourite of the gods; but Aristotle says, he never foretold a...
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...
One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, —This is a reference to the Cretan poet, Epimenides who lived about 600 B.C. It is a hexameter line and Callimachus quoted the first part of it...
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. ONE - Epimenides, priest, bard, and seer of Gnossus, in Crete, about 600 BC, sent for to...
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...
ONE OF THEMSELVES] i.e. one of the Cretans. The reference is to Epimenides, a poet, circ. 600 b.c. St. Paul calls him a, prophet because, (1) poets and prophets were apt to be classed together, and (2...
ONE OF THEMSELVES, EVEN A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN, SAID. — St. Paul had spoken (Titus 1:10) in the severest terms of certain influential members of the Cretan Church; he had even alluded to their disastr...
CHAPTER 20 CHRISTIANITY AND UNCHRISTIAN LITERATURE. - Titus 1:12 THE hexameter verse which St. Paul here cites from the Cretan poet Epimenides is one of three quotations from profane literature which...
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...
προφήτης : It is possible that St. Paul applies this title to the author of the following hexameter line because the Cretan false teachers were self-styled prophets. There was a Cretan prophet once wh...
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...
(m) One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. (m) Epimenides, who was considered a prophet amongst them. See Laertius, and Cic...
_One of them, a prophet of their own. [9] He does not mean a true prophet, but as the pretended prophets of Baal were called prophets. St. Paul understands Epimenides, a poet of Crete, who by some pag...
(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...
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...
12_One of themselves, a prophet of their own _I have no doubt that he who is here spoken of is Epimenides, who was a native of Crete; for, when the Apostle says that this author was “one of themselves...
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...
ONE OF THEMSELVES, EVEN A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN,.... This was Epimenides, in whose poems stand the words here cited; the apostle rightly calls him "one of themselves", since he was a Cretian by birth,...
One of themselves, _even_ a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians _are_ alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. Ver. 12. _Even a prophet of their own_] Epimenides, the poet, who by his countrymen...
_One of themselves_ That is, one of their own countrymen, who could not be unacquainted with their conduct, or disposed to belie them; _even a prophet of their own_ This was the poet Epimenides, who,...
A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN; Epimenides, one of their poets. EVIL BEASTS; ferocious and malignant. SLOW BELLIES; slothful gluttons....
ONE OF THEMSELVES, EVEN A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN, SAID, THE CRETIANS ARE ALWAYS LIARS, EVIL BEASTS, SLOW BELLIES....
THE FALSE TEACHERS CHARACTERIZED AND THE QUESTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM DISCUSSED....
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...
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...
ONE OF THEMSELVES, EVEN A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN; Epimenides, a Greek poet, thus spake of the people of this country, whom he calls a prophet, because he was a poet, and wrote something about such divin...
Address of Tatian to the Greeks though some one says that the Cretans are liars.[75] Athenagoras A Plea for the Christians Have built a tomb to thee who art not dead."[120] Tertullian Ad Nationes...
Titus 1:12 One G5100 of G1537 them G846 prophet G4396 their G846 own G2398 said G2036 (G5627) Cretans...
Titus 1:12. THEMSELVES, _i.e._ Cretans. The hexameter verse quoted is from a lost poem by Epimenides, a Cretan sage of the sixth century B.C., who is well called ‘a prophet of their own,' for he is de...
A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN (ιδιος αυτων προφητης). "Their own prophet." Self-styled "prophet" (or poet), and so accepted by the Cretans and by Cicero and Apuleius, that is Epimenides who was born in Cre...
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...
IT WAS A CRETAN HIMSELF. Epimenides, writing about 500 B. C. This implies the false teachers said they _were prophets._ Paul quotes one of their own prophets who "tells it like it is" about the charac...
_The __CRETIANS_ _ARE_ _ALWAYS_ _LIARS_ A classical quotation It is not often that St. Paul quoted from the treasuries of classic literature, and when he did so he did not draw upon the most celebra...
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).
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:12 CRETANS ARE ALWAYS LIARS, EVIL BEASTS, LAZY GLUTTONS. Crete was famous in the ancient world for its immorality. A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN. Paul does not criticize Cretan society...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 1:10. VAIN TALKERS.—Men of aimless speech, which is devoid of any good result. Men whose speech tendeth to poverty. DECEIVERS.—The word, which is peculiar to St....
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. 12. The apostle now passes on to the Cretans generally. They had in a measure been referred to already; for while persons of the Jewish race had been more particularly noticed, it was only as for...
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 Timothy 4:2; 2 Peter 2:12; 2 Peter 2:15; Acts 17:28; Jude 1:8;...
One of themselves [τ ι ς ε ξ α υ τ ω ν]. Autwn refers to the gainsayers, vv. 9, 10. Tiv refers to Epimenides, contemporary with Solon, and born in Crete B. C. 659. A legend relates that, going by his...
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...
A prophet — So all poets were anciently called; but, besides, Diogenes Laertius says that Epimenides, the Cretan poet, foretold many things. Evil wild beasts — Fierce and savage....
Doesn’t Paul involve himself in a paradox or contradiction here? PROBLEM: Paul quoted a Cretan who said that “Cretans are always liars” (1:12). But if this was said by a Cretan and Cretans always lie,...
The next argument St. Paul makes use of to excite Titus to take great care how he behaved himself at Crete, and what bishops he left there, is drawn from the quality and nature of the people in that i...