Titus 1:11. Stopped; literally, muzzled; best done by exposing them as persons who ‘overturn entire houses,' i.e. families, through anarchic doctrine subversive of domestic authority: probably lax theories of Christian freedom in reference to wedlock and the duties of children and of slaves. Their motive was ‘base gain' (better than ‘filthy lucre') to be won from their perverts.
TITUS 1:11 ca,rin After ca,rin the trilingual manuscript 460 (see also the comment on ver. 9) adds ta. te,kna oi` tou.j ivdi,ouj gonei/j u`bri,zontej h' tu,ptonej evpisto,mize kai. e;legce kai. nouqe...
Verse 11. _WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED_] Unmask them at once; exhibit them to the people; make manifest their ignorance and hypocrisy; and let them be confounded before the people whom they are endea...
WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED - The word here rendered stopped - ἐπιστομιζειν epistomizein - occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It means, properly, to check, or curb, as with a bridle; to restr...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The salutation (Titus 1:1)_ 2. Instructions concerning elders (Titus 1:5) 3. Warnings against false teachers (Titus 1:10)...
TITUS-' ATTITUDE TO FALSE TEACHERS. Loyalty to sound doctrine is needful for silencing many deceitful teachers not outside the Church (Hort), but self-constituted instructors within its borders, who r...
THE MAINSPRINGS OF APOSTLESHIP (Titus 1:1-4)...
For there are many who are undisciplined, empty talkers, deceivers. Those of the circumcision are especially so. They must be muzzled. They are the kind of people who upset whole households, by teachi...
MOUTHS... STOPPED. Greek. _epistomizo_. Only here. SUBVERT. overthrow. Greek. anatrepo. Only here and 2 Timothy 2:18. HOUSES = households. Greek. _oikos_. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject). A...
_whose mouths must be stopped_ The verb is so used in classical Greek often; the -stopping" must have reference to the -convict" of Titus 1:9; Titus 1:13. Compare the use of -to muzzle" in the Gospels...
After χάριν the cursive 109 inserts the gloss τὰ τέκνα οἱ τοὺς ἱδίους γονεῖς ὑβρίζοντες ἥ τύπτοντες ἐπιστόμιζε καὶ ἔλεγχε καὶ νουθέτει ὡς πατὴρ τέκνα, which has no apparent relation to the context. It...
THE HERETICAL TEACHERS AND TITUS’ DUTY IN REGARD TO THEM...
ΈΠΙΣΤΟΜΊΖΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΈΠΙΣΤΟΜΊΖΩ (G1993) затыкать рот, взнуздывать, заставлять замолчать. Инфинитив как дополнение к безличному гл. ΔΕΙ (G1163) _praes. ind. act._ "Необходимо заткнуть им...
THE DESCRIPTION AND REFUTATION OF FALSE TEACHERS Titus 1:10-16. _TEXT 1:10-16_ 10 For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must...
Whose mouths must be stopped, —-literally, "muzzled," or "bridled" as an unruly beast. It was necessary for Titus to stop the false teachers. Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put...
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. MONTHS MUST BE STOPPED, [ epistomizein (G1993)] - 'muzzled,' 'bridled' as an un...
1 Paul writes this letter in the character of a slave. This shows that the epistle deals with service. He adds the title apostle, to give weight to his injunctions. 2 Eonian life, usually called "eve...
GREETING. DIRECTIONS FOR ORGANISING THE CRETAN CHURCH 1-16. 'Paul an Apostle, to Titus his own son in the faith. In appointing elders in the towns of Crete, see to their character, and be sure that t...
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT THIS LETTER WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT TITUS Titus was a *Gentile Christian (Galatians 2:3). Titus had probably become a Christi...
(11)WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED, WHO SUBVERT WHOLE HOUSES. — The translation should run here, _seeing they subvert, &c._ There was, indeed, grave cause why these men should be put to silence; the mis...
I have just mentioned rebuke as a necessary element in a presbyter's teaching. This is especially needful in dealing with Cretan heretics, in whom the Jewish strain is disagreeably prominent. Alike in...
οὓς δεῖ ἐπιστομίζειν : _quos oportet redargui, whose mouths must be stopped_ by the unanswerable arguments of the orthodox controversialist. This is the result hoped for from the “conviction,” of Titu...
REPROVE THOSE WHOSE WORKS DENY GOD Titus 1:10 The Judaizing teachers, who insisted that men must become Jews before they could be Christians, were always on Paul's heels, visiting his churches and di...
Titus is not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. From the letter we learn that he was a convert of the apostle. Moreover, we know that he was a Greek. This letter reached him while he was in Crete,...
SILENCE THE FALSE TEACHERS Elders must be able to silence, as when wind instruments cease to play, such false teachings (Titus 1:11). To stop them, they may answer them or deny them the pulpit, or bot...
_Whole houses. [8]]_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Universas domos, _Greek: olous oikous._...
(4) To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. (5) В¶ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest s...
The epistle to Titus has much in common with those to Timothy, as all must observe; not only as being addressed to a fellow-servant, and indeed a son in the faith, but in general similarity of charact...
11_Whose mouth must be stopped _A good pastor ought therefore to be on the watch, so as not to give silent permission to wicked and dangerous doctrines to make gradual progress, or to allow wicked men...
The Epistle to Titus is occupied with the maintenance of order in the churches of God. The especial object of those written to Timothy as the maintenance of sound doctrine, although speaking of other...
WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED,.... Or they be silenced, by reasons and arguments fetched out of the word of God; as were the Sadducees and Pharisees by Christ, so that they durst ask him no more questi...
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. Ver. 11. _Whose mouths must be stopped_] Gr. επιστομιζειν, muzzled, as bandogs a...
_For there are many unruly_ Subject to no order; _and vain talkers_ Ματαιολογοι, persons who utter a multitude of foolish and trifling things, especially concerning genealogies and fables; _and deceiv...
WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED; not by inquisitions or physical force, but by sound argument and conclusive reasoning-by the power of truth. SUBVERT; turn aside from the faith and practice of the gospe...
WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED; WHO SUBVERT WHOLE HOUSES, TEACHING THINGS WHICH THEY OUGHT NOT, FOR FILTHY LUCRE'S SAKE....
THE FALSE TEACHERS CHARACTERIZED AND THE QUESTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM DISCUSSED....
Paul writes both as a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, so that in the epistle considerate care is mingled with firm authority. His basis of writing is, first, the faith of God's elect; t...
10-16 False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose such in good time, that their folly being made manifest, they may go no further They had a base end in what they did; serving a worl...
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...
Titus 1:11 whose G3739 mouths G1993 must G1163 (G5748) stopped G1993 (G5721) who G3748 subvert G396 ...
WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED (ους δε επιστομιζειν). Literally, "whom it is necessary to silence by stopping the mouth." Present active infinitive επιστομιζειν, old and common verb (επ, στομα, mouth...
While reading this chapter, we must understand that Titus was sent to Crete, to superintend the preaching of the gospel throughout that island. Crete was at that time inhabited by a people who were on...
CONTENTS: Divine order for local churches. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: Divine faith rests not on fallible reasonings and opinions of men, but on the infallible Word of God, the...
Titus 1:1. _Paul, a servant of God,_ and not a servant of Moses. This style is much the same as in 2 Timothy 1:1, respecting the promise of eternal life. This promise is _according to the faith of God...
IT IS NECESSARY. These people must be stopped, not by persecution or force, but using Truth to expose their error! This is the only safe way to handle such a matter, _but it must be done in love!_ Of...
_For __THERE_ _ARE_ _MANY_ _UNRULY_ _AND_ _VAIN_ _TALKERS_ _AND_ _DECEIVERS__--The conjunction “for” showeth that the words following contain a reason of the matter preceding, viz._ , why the ministe...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:10 The Problem: False Teachers. The description of the false teachers contrasts directly with the descriptions of what the elders should be (vv. Titus 1:5).
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:11 THEY MUST BE SILENCED. One responsibility of church leaders is to stop false teaching when it arises in the church. SHAMEFUL GAIN. These teachers are motivated by greed (compa...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 1:10. VAIN TALKERS.—Men of aimless speech, which is devoid of any good result. Men whose speech tendeth to poverty. DECEIVERS.—The word, which is peculiar to St....
EXPOSITION TITUS 1:1 _Knowledge _for _acknowledging, _A.V.; _according to _for _after, _A.V. A SERVANT OF GOD (δοῦλος Θεοῦ); so in the superscriptions: Romans 1:1;...
Vers. 10, 11. The apostle now, taking occasion from the last clause in the preceding verse, proceeds to discourse of the peculiar character of the adversaries whom the infant church in Crete had to co...
Not much is known about Titus. Paul makes slight references to him in the Corinthian epistles. Outside of that we know very little about Titus, except what we can pick up in the book. Evidently he was...
1 Timothy 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:10; 2 Peter 2:1; 2 Timothy 3:6;...
Whose mouths must be stopped [ο υ ς δ ε ι ε π ι σ τ ο μ ι ζ ε ι ν]. Lit. whom it is necessary to silence. Epistomizein, N. T. o. o LXX Originally, to put something into the mouth, as a bit into a hors...
THE EPISTLE TO TITUS Titus 1:1 _and Titus 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Epistle of Paul to Titus carries with it some very striking "admonitions which will be found most helpful to us. Titus was a yo...
Stopped — The word properly means, to put a bit into the mouth of an unruly horse....