In the face of this immoral teaching, do you constantly impress the moral duties of the Gospel on your people of every age and class. There is an ideal of conduct appropriate to old men and old women respectively the latter have moreover special duties in the training of the young women and young me... [ Continue Reading ]
σὺ δὲ : See reff., and note on 1 Timothy 6:11. Titus is to be as active in teaching positive truth as the heretics were in teaching evil. λάλει : emphasises the importance of oral teaching. τῇ ὑγιαινούσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ : See on 1 Timothy 1:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
The heads of moral instruction which begin here are more unmistakably intended for the laity than are the similar passages in _Tim_. That it should devolve on the apostle's legate to give popular moral instruction is perhaps another indication of the less-developed state of the Church in Crete than... [ Continue Reading ]
πρεσβύτιδας : correlative to πρεσβύτας, as πρεσβυτέρας is to πρεσβυτέρῳ in 1 Timothy 5:1-2. ὡσαύτως : See on 1 Timothy 2:9. ἐν καταστήματι ἱεροπρεπεῖς : _reverent in demeanour_, R.V. καταστολή in 1 Timothy 2:9 has an almost exclusive reference to dress. _Demeanour_ (R.V.) is better than _behaviour... [ Continue Reading ]
σωφρονίζουσιν. The only other examples of ἵνα with a pres. indic. in Paul are 1 Corinthians 4:6 (φυσιοῦσθε) and Galatians 4:17 (ζηλοῦτε). These may be cases of an unusual formation of the subj., both being verbs in - όω. γινώσκομεν, 1 John 5:20, is another instance. _Train_ is the excellent renderin... [ Continue Reading ]
οἰκουργούς : _workers at home_. Field says that “the only authority for this word is Soranus of Ephesus, a medical writer, not earlier than the second century,” οἰκουργὸν καὶ καθέδριον διάγειν βίον; but the verb is found in Clem. Rom., _ad Cor_. i. 1, γυναιξίν … τὰ κατὰ τὸν οἶκον σεμνῶς οἰκουργεῖν ἐ... [ Continue Reading ]
ὡσαύτως : See on 1 Timothy 2:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
περὶ πάντα is joined with the preceding words by Jerome and Lucifer (_ut pudici_ [_sobrii_] _sint in omnibus_), followed by Tischendorf and von Soden. For this use of περί, See on 1 Timothy 1:19. St. Paul's usual phrase is ἐν παντί (fifteen times in all; ten times in 2 Cor.; not in Pastorals), or ἐν... [ Continue Reading ]
ἀκατάγνωστον : _to which no exception can be taken_. See Deissmann, _Bible Studies_, Trans. p. 200. ὑγιῆ implies the conformity of the doctrine taught with the Church's standard (see note on 1 Timothy 1:10), while ἀκατάγνωστον has reference to the manner of its presentation to the hearer. ὁ ἐξ ἐναν... [ Continue Reading ]
δούλους : sc. παρακάλει, Titus 2:6. For the general topic, and the term δεσπότης, _cf._ 1 Timothy 6:1. ἐν πᾶσιν : joined as in text by Jerome, Ambrosiaster and [318] 93 with ὑποτάσσ. It is in favour of this that ἐν πᾶσιν elsewhere in the Pastorals (see note on Titus 2:7) is at the end of a clause;... [ Continue Reading ]
μὴ νοσφιζομένους : _non fraudantes_ (Vulg.), _not purloining_. The particular form of theft implied is the abstraction or retention for oneself, of a part of something entrusted to one's care. πᾶσαν πίστιν ἐνδεικνυμένους ἀγαθήν : _displaying the utmost trustworthiness_. There is a similar phrase in... [ Continue Reading ]
The emphatic word is πᾶσιν. The connexion is with what has immediately preceded. No rank or class or type of mankind is outside the saving influence of God's grace. Chrys. concludes a striking picture of the adverse moral environment of slaves with, “It is a difficult and surprising thing that there... [ Continue Reading ]
The justification of this insistence on the universal necessity for right conduct is the all-embracing scope of the saving grace of God, which has visibly appeared as a call to repentance, a help to amendment of life, and a stimulus to hope. Christ's gift of Himself for us constrains us to give ours... [ Continue Reading ]
παιδεύουσα. _erudiens_ (Vulg.), _corripiens_ ([319]). Grace is potentially σωτήριος as regards all men; actually its efficacy is seen in the disciplining of individuals one by one; ἡμᾶς, to begin with. See notes on 1 Timothy 1:1; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 Timothy 4:10. So Chrys. makes ἵνα depend on ἐπεφάνη m... [ Continue Reading ]
προσδεχόμενοι κ. τ. λ., as already stated, describes the glad expectancy which is the ruling and prevailing thought in the lives of men looking for their Lord's return (Luke 12:36), προσδεχόμενοι τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ (Jude 1:21). _Cf._ Romans 8:19; 1 Corinthians 1:7; Philippians 3:... [ Continue Reading ]
ὃς ἔδωκεν ἑαυτὸν κ. τ. λ.: see note on 1 Timothy 2:6. As already observed, this is an appeal from the constraining love of Christ to the responding love of man. λυτρώσηται : _deliver_. The language is borrowed from Psalms 129 (130):8 αὐτὸς λυτρώσεται τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ πασῶν τῶν ἀνομιῶν αὐτοῦ. The mater... [ Continue Reading ]
See on 1 Timothy 4:12. ταῦτα is best connected with λάλει only, and referred to the positive instructions of chap. 2, “the things which befit the sound doctrine”; while παρακάλει and ἔλεγχε represent the two main functions of the pastor. See Titus 1:9. ἐπιταγῆς : _authority, imperio_; πάσης ἐπιτ.:... [ Continue Reading ]