Titus 2:8. The substance of public Christian teaching should be so plainly of a ‘healthy' moral tendency as not to lie open to the animadversion of the unbelievers. But by the true reading ‘us' for you at the close, Paul includes all Christians as affording no handle to the enemies of the faith, if they walk according to sound doctrine.

Titus 2:9 resumes the list of classes from Titus 2:6. Among the first converts were many bond-servants, for the Gospel was glad news to them; but they (like wives, Titus 2:5) were apt in the joy of new spiritual freedom to strain the bonds of civil duty. Paul bids them recommend Christianity by going beyond legal subjection, studying how to satisfy their ‘lords.' The negatives describe the two chief temptations of their condition.

Answering again is too narrow; not thwarting in any way.

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