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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Titus 2:11

Basis in Christian doctrine for the foregoing admonitions, 11-15.

Titus 2:11. Christ's work is the appearance, or literally, epiphany, of that Divine grace or ‘favour' to man (cf. Titus 3:4) which had previously been concealed. Grace is the ground of redemption; redemption the manifestation of grace.

The grace that is saving appeared (not ‘hath appeared,' for word refers to a definite past event), ‘like the dawn' (Wordsworth). We may either read, ‘the grace that saves all men appeared,' i.e. men of all races and orders; or, ‘grace appeared to all men, bringing salvation.' Former perhaps to be preferred.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

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