OLBGrk; TITUS CHAPTER 2 TITUS 1:1 The salutation. TITUS 1:5 For what end Titus was left in Crete. TITUS 1:6 How they should be qualified who are ordained to the ministry. TITUS 1:10,11 The mouths of evil teachers must be stopped. TITUS 1:12 The bad character of the Cretians. PAUL, A SERVANT... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE; which faith also, producing the acknowledgment, profession, and obedience to the truth, according to godliness, produceth in the soul a _hope, _ or certain expectation, of eternal salvation or happiness. WHICH GOD, THAT CANNOT LIE, PROMISED; nor doth this hope grow u... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HATH IN DUE TIMES; in proper time, (saith the Greek), in such time as God had eternally purposed, and as seemed good to the Divine wisdom. MANIFESTED HIS WORD THROUGH PREACHING; he hath by setting up the ordinance of preaching, or publishing the gospel, by men sent by him, manifested this promis... [ Continue Reading ]
MINE OWN SON AFTER THE COMMON FAITH; from hence we learn that Titus was converted to Christianity by Paul. Timothy was so called, 1 TIMOTHY 1:2. The salutation is the same with that to Timothy, 1 TIMOTHY 1:2 2 TIMOTHY 1:2, and in most of the Epistles, with small variation: SEE POOLE ON "1 TIMOTHY 1:... [ Continue Reading ]
IN CRETE; in Candia, as it is now called: see the Argument to this Epistle. SET IN ORDER THE THINGS THAT ARE WANTING; set to rights things which I left undone, being hastened away to other places. AND ORDAIN ELDERS IN EVERY CITY, AS I HAD APPOINTED THEE: in this island we are told there were a hundr... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; IF ANY BE BLAMELESS: the apostle now directs what kind of persons should be made elders or officers in the church. It is an elliptic speech, where must be something understood to perfect the sense. Do not make every one an elder, but if any be anegklhtov, see the notes on 1 TIMOTHY 3:10, suc... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; FOR A BISHOP MUST BE BLAMELESS; one that hath an oversight of the church of God, ought to be one whom none can truly tax with any scandalous sin. AS THE STEWARD OF GOD; as a chief servant in God's house, intrusted to dispense his mysteries, 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1, one that should set an example t... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT A LOVER OF HOSPITALITY; a lover of strangers: SEE POOLE ON "1 TIMOTHY 3:2". A LOVER OF GOOD MEN; one that hath a kindness for good men, or who loves all good things. SOBER: SEE POOLE ON "1 TIMOTHY 3:2". JUST; just in his dealings between man and man, giving to all their due. HOLY; one that rever... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLDING FAST THE FAITHFUL WORD, AS HE HATH BEEN TAUGHT; no airy, uncertain man, that is of that opinion which his company is of, or his age favours, but holding steady the word of faith, as he hath learned it from me, and the rest of the apostles. THAT HE MAY BE ABLE BY SOUND DOCTRINE, BOTH TO EXHOR... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THERE ARE MANY UNRULY AND VAIN TAKERS: we have had both of these words before; the first signifieth stubborn, unruly men; the second, idle, foolish, vain talkers: the apostle saith, that in that age there were many of these. AND DECEIVERS; and such who were deceivers of other men's souls, or had... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED; the word is active; such ministers ought to be placed in cities as shall be able and fit to stop such persons mouths, by sound doctrine and arguments fit to convince them: or, thou oughtest to stop their mouths by silencing them; though I do not see how this was practic... [ Continue Reading ]
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 divine oracles as they had. SAID, THE CRETIANS ARE ALWAY LIARS: the Cretians were famous for lying and fa... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; THIS WITNESS IS TRUE; this testimony of Epimenides is true, what I have found by experience, and those of them that in profession have embraced the Christian faith may have some tincture of their nation's vices. WHEREFORE REBUKE THEM SHARPLY; if thou meetest with any such, reprove or convin... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES: by his calling them _Jewish fables, _ (not _old wives fables, _ as in the Epistle to Timothy), he lets us know that he reflects upon those Jews that seemed to be proselyted, but yet had a tincture of their Jewish education, and spent their discourse about such fabul... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE: by _the pure_ here (as appeareth by the terms opposed to it) are meant all those whose hearts are purified by faith, working by love in a holy life. To these he saith _all things, _ that is, all the creatures of God, all meats and drinks, _are pure. What God hath c... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD; he is speaking of the Jews, who (all of them) professed to know and to believe one living and true God. BUT IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM; but they lived like atheists, as if there were no God in the world, ROMANS 2:17. BEING ABOMINABLE, AND DISOBEDIENT, AND UNTO E... [ Continue Reading ]