Titus 2:12

teaching us that Rather, -training us"; and the present participle implies a continued training, putting us under discipline; this form of the word is explained on 1 Timothy 1:20. The comma should be before -that," which has its proper meaning in order that. This -training," -discipline," -education," is through the means of grace. -The moral aim of the disciplining in question is expressed first in the negative then in the positive form." Fairbairn.

denying ungodliness and worldly lusts Better, having renounced, though R.V. keeps -denying", and Alford urges that the aorist participle and aorist verb cover the same extent, the whole life. This no doubt is a thoroughly correctuse of the participle, but not a necessary use; and the position of the participle at the very beginning and the verb at the end of the clause suggests rather the other equally legitimate use of the participle, to express the priority of the renunciation. So -I renounce the devil, the world, the flesh" is the first act in the first of the -means of grace," holy baptism.

ungodliness The opposite of -godliness," see notes 1 Timothy 1:9; 1 Timothy 2:2. Our present word and its connexions occur three times in the Pastoral Epistles, three times in St Peter, three times in St Jude; otherwise only in Ep. to Romans.

worldly lusts The adjective -worldly" is only used once besides in N.T., in Hebrews 9:1, of the sanctuary in the wilderness, -a sanctuary of the world." Here the phrase covers the ground of 1 John 2:16-17, where see Bp Westcott's full note. -The desire of things earthly as ends in themselves comes from the world and is bounded by the world. It is therefore incompatible with the love of the Father.… In themselves all finite objects, "the things that are in the world," are "of the Father." It is the false view of them which makes them idols.… The three false tendencies which S. John marks cover the whole ground of "worldliness," the desire to set up the creature as an end." This word -worldly" occurs in the Apostolical Constitutions, vii. 1, -abstain from fleshly and worldly lusts," apparently combining this passage and 1 Peter 2:11, though its original, The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, has -fleshly and bodily," 1.4.

we should live soberly, righteously, and godly The clause is adopted to describe a true Christian life in the Pr.-Bk. -General Confession" and -Baptismal Service for Adults." See above and Titus 2:11. Bp Ellicott rightly; -Christian duties under three aspects, to ourselves, to others, and to God; but not to be too much narrowed, though the orderand the meaningspoint to this;" and see notes on 1 Timothy 2:9; Titus 1:8.

this present world See note on 1 Timothy 6:17.