Titus 2:2

Titus 2:2. Sober is best taken literally; parallel to ‘not given to much wine' in Titus 2:3. Drunkenness was a Cretan failing, and the old were especially liable to it

Grave, ‘reverend or worshipful' (Wordsworth), misrendered ‘honest' in Philippians 4:8.

Temperate, same word as ‘sober' of Titus 1:8, indicates wise self-control. The next words apply the idea of moral sanity and holiness to the three cardinal Christian graces; only for ‘hope' is here put that brave endurance to the end under trial which is the practical fruit of hope, and appropriate in aged disciples.