The Apostolate its Ministry of Goodwill and Good Works The last verse of chap, 2, in gathering up the previous counsels, also makes a link for passing to the further consideration of _social and civil duties generally_. So the R.V. in printing the verse as a separate paragraph. Westcott and Hort co... [ Continue Reading ]
The duty of living in peace from a sense of God's love and through the Spirit's power 1. _Put them in mind_ -Them" must be -the Cretan Christians" generally: St Paul is gathering all up in his mind for his final counsel. The verb for -put in mind," and its substantive, occur twice in St John, once i... [ Continue Reading ]
_to speak evil of no_man] Cf. 1 Timothy 1:20; 1 Timothy 6:1; Titus 2:5. In the first place used absolutely -to blaspheme," as Acts 26:11, -I strove to make them blaspheme." _to be no brawlers_, but _gentle_ Better, as R.V., NOT TO BE CONTENTIOUS; the word only occurs in N. T., 1 Timothy 3:3, where... [ Continue Reading ]
_For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish_ -Sometimes" in the old sense of -sometime," Ephesians 2:13, -ye who sometimes were afar off." Cp. Shaksp. _Rich. II_. 1. 2. 54 (_Bible Word-Book_, p. 551): -Farewell, old Gaunt: thy _sometimes_brother's wife With her companion grief must end her life.... [ Continue Reading ]
The contrast is striking; God hated the sinners" sins, and the sinners hated one another, but God loved all the sinners through it all, and at the right time let His -loving kindness" -appear." Render: WHEN THE KINDNESS OF OUR SAVIOUR GOD AND HIS LOVE TOWARD MAN APPEARED. -Kindness" is the word in E... [ Continue Reading ]
_not by works of righteousness_ The exact grammatical form is rendered by NOT BY VIRTUE OF WORKS, WORKS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH WE DID. We should read the neut. accus. of the relative with the best authorities, rather than the genitive here. Bp Wordsworth well explains the reason of the clause: that... [ Continue Reading ]
_which he shed on us abundantly_ More closely in R.V. WHICH HE POURED OUT UPON US RICHLY; the verb is the same, in the same tense, as in Acts 2:33, -he hath poured forth this"; the aorist there being used according to Greek idiom of what has just happened, here of God's objective act once for all, i... [ Continue Reading ]
_being justified … be made heirs_ The word -justifying" and -justification" occur 25 times in the great group of Epistles, written 10 years before this to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, whose subject is -Christ the Redeemer," -Christ for us." It has not been used in the next great group written... [ Continue Reading ]
The abiding practical holiness of Good Works 8. See summary at the beginning of the chapter, and note in Appendix E on _The Faithful Sayings_. This is _a faithful saying_ Render as 1 Timothy 1:15, where see note, FAITHFUL IS THE SAYING. We begin a new paragraph embodying -another of the compendiou... [ Continue Reading ]
The summary of the other chief topic of the letter; the dealing with the false teaching and evil living of the day. See note above. _avoid foolish questions_ The Greek puts the errors first in stronger contrast to the good; -questions" should be -questionings" as in 1 Timothy 1:4. see note there; wh... [ Continue Reading ]
This and the next verse seem to close the last instruction; St Paul reviews the counsel given as to doctrine and discipline; similarly at the close of 1 Tim. See summary at beginning of ch. vi. _A man_that is _a heretick_ This being so, it would be unnatural if the epithet here were required to have... [ Continue Reading ]
he that is _such is subverted_ IS PERVERTED, the word is used by Lucian for -turning inside out," in LXX. for -a very froward generation," Deuteronomy 32:20. Vulg. has -subversus," but Theod. Mops. Lat. -perversus." it does not occur again in N.T., the usual compound being with the preposition -thro... [ Continue Reading ]
_When I shall send_ Lit. -when I shall have sent," aor. subj.: Vulg. -cum misero." Titus would of course wait for his deputy's arrival. _to Nicopolis_ The town of that name _in Epirus_most probably, since -there was a large population, a good harbour, and numerous opportunities of coming into conta... [ Continue Reading ]
Personal directions. As to the conjectural chapter of biography of which we have traces here, see introduction, pp. 40 44. We may suppose that the object of the sending Tychicus or Artemas was to take the place of Titus during his stay with St Paul. From 2 Timothy 4:12, Tychicus would seem to have b... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey_ The verb -bring on their journey" is literally -send forward," and so Vulg. here -praemitte"; but in the other eight places of its use in N.T. -deduco" is used, that is, -conduct," -take them a certain part of the way." So in old provincial Engli... [ Continue Reading ]
_let ours also learn_ More clearly as R.V. AND LET OUR PEOPLE ALSO LEARN. Theod. Mops, excellently, because Titus (as a poor person) could not be expected to do all, -teach," he says, -your people to attend carefully to the support of their religious teachers." St Paul quotes again half of the -Fait... [ Continue Reading ]
Closing Salutation 15. _All that are with me salute thee_ The companions of his journey or sojourn, cf. Galatians 1:2; Colossians 4:7-14. They are not specified and would be changing, as his needs and their feelings changed, cf. 2 Timothy 4:9-12. _Greet them that love us in the faith_ Rather: SALUT... [ Continue Reading ]