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Verse 15. _UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE_] This appears to have
been spoken in reference to the Jewish distinctions of _clean_ and
_unclean meats_. To the genuine Christian every kind of meat prop...
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UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE - See the notes at Romans 14:14,
Romans 14:20. There is probably an allusion here to the distinctions
made in respect to meats and drinks among the Jews. Some article...
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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)...
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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...
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THE MAINSPRINGS OF APOSTLESHIP (Titus 1:1-4)...
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For that very reason correct them with severity, that they may grow
healthy in the faith and not pay attention to Jewish fables and to
rules and regulations made by men who persist in turning their ba...
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UNTO... ARE PURE. Figure of speech _Paroemia_. App-6.
UNTO. To.
PURE. Greek. _katharos_. First occurrence Matthew 5:8.
ALL, &c. The use of all things, i.e. meats. Compare Romans 14:14; Ro
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_Unto the pure all_things are _pure_ To the same effect as 1 Timothy
4:3-5. Cf. Matthew 15:2; Matthew 15:11 for the -wholesome words of
Jesus Christ" on the same point. The _true_principle of lawful
C...
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ΠΆΝΤΑ. The rec. text (with אcD2cKL) adds μέν, possibly
because of the δέ in the next clause (cp. Romans 14:20); but it is
omitted by א*ACD2*E*GP and the Latins.
ΜΕΜΙΑΜΜΈΝΟΙΣ. This is the spelling of...
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THE HERETICAL TEACHERS AND TITUS’ DUTY IN REGARD TO THEM...
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ΜΕΜΙΑΜΜΈΝΟΙΣ _perf. pass. part._ от.
ΜΙΑΊΝΩ (G3392) пятнать, осквернять,
загрязнять. _Perf._ указывает на
завершенное действие в прошлом,
результатом которого является
длительное состояние или услови...
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UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE— "I know these Judaizing teachers
value themselves highly upon the distinctions of food, which they
inculcate as of so great importance to purity: but they are much
m...
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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...
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Unto the pure all things [are] pure:—Jesus said, Blessed [are] the
pure in heart: for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8). In the "Jewish
fables" just referred to were rigid regulations concerning foods...
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Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and
unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is
defiled.
ALL THINGS - external, "are pure" in themselves; the...
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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...
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UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS _are_ PURE] St. Chrysostom said, 'God made
nothing impure.' Used, not abused, all things are right; abused, the
seemingly innocent thing is sin. St. Paul does not mean to limi...
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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...
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In this verse, the word ‘pure’ means innocent and without *sin. A
pure person is good. He is not a mixture of good and evil. The *Jews
said that a person should obey all the *Old Testament commands. A...
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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...
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UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE. — The spirit of this famous
saying of St. Paul, occurring almost in the same language in the Roman
Letter (Romans 14:20), was the groundwork of much of the Gentile
A...
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πάντα καθαρὰ κ. τ. λ.: This is best understood as a
maxim of the Judaic Gnostics, based on a perversion of the Saying
πάντα καθαρὰ ὑμῖν ἐστιν (Luke 11:41. _Cf._
Romans 14:20; Mark 7:18.). St. Paul acc...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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(11) Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are
defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their (o) mind and
conscience is defiled.
(11) He shows in few words, that purity c...
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All things are clean to the clean. That is, no creature is evil of its
own nature; and the distinction of animals, clean and unclean, is now
out of date, as are the other ceremonies of the Jewish law....
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(12) One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The
Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. (13) This witness
is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in...
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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...
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15_To the pure all things indeed are pure _He glances at one class of
fabulous opinions; for the choice of the kinds of food, (such as was
temporarily enjoined by Moses,) together with purifications a...
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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...
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UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE,.... The apostle having made mention
of Jewish fables, and the traditions of the elders, takes notice of
some darling notions, that these judaizing Christians had imb...
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Unto the pure all things _are_ pure: but unto them that are defiled
and unbelieving _is_ nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience
is defiled.
Ver. 15. _Unto the pure all things, &c._] This Pi...
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_Unto the pure_ Namely, believers whose hearts are purified by faith,
Acts 15:9; _all things are pure_ All kinds of meats are lawful to be
used; _but unto them that are defiled_ Who are still under th...
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UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE : BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE DEFILED-IS
NOTHING PURE; there is an allusion here to the stress laid by the
false teachers on Jewish distinctions of clean and unclean meats...
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UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE; BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE DEFILED AND
UNBELIEVING IS NOTHING PURE; BUT EVEN THEIR MIND AND CONSCIENCE IS
DEFILED....
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THE FALSE TEACHERS CHARACTERIZED AND THE QUESTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH
THEM DISCUSSED....
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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...
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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...
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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 sait...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III "Omnia" ergo dicit esse "munda
mundis; pollutis autem et infidelibus nihil est mundum, sed polluta
est eorum et mens, et conscientia."[231]
Five Books in Reply...
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Titus 1:15 pure G2513 things G3956 pure G3303 G2513 but G1161 defiled
G3392 (G5772) and G2532 unbelieving...
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TO THEM THAT ARE DEFILED
(τοις μεμιαμμενοις). Perfect passive articular
participle of μιαινω, old verb, to dye with another colour, to
stain, in N.T. only here, Judges 1:8; Hebrews 12:15. See
μεμιαν...
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Titus 1:15
_(with Matthew 5:8)_
Purity.
The two texts are two motives. With one voice they enforce purity; but
each by its own argument and with its own persuasion. The one looks
rather at the prese...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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EVERYTHING IS PURE. Compare Peter's vision (Acts 10:9-16), and what
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:12. The meaning is: "The fulfilling of
bodily desires is, when lawful, a _pure thing_ in the case of th...
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_Unto __THE_ _PURE_ _ALL_ _THINGS_ _ARE_ _PURE_
The supreme importance of moral character
1_._
There is an essential difference in the moral characters of men.
2. The outward world is to men accor...
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TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:15 TO THE PURE, ALL THINGS ARE PURE. In light
of v. Titus 1:14 and earlier teaching by Jesus ...
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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).
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Titus 1:15. UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.—This saying
concentrates all the opposition to fictitious holiness and purity
which made the apostle the object of the c...
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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;...
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Ver. 15. _To the pure all things are pure:_ a great counter principle
set over against that on which those Jewish semi-Gnostic sciolists
were trading to the perversion of their own and other people's...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 10:23; 1 Corinthians 10:25; 1 Corinthians 10:31; 1
Corinthians 11:27;...
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Unto the pure [τ ο ι ς κ α θ α ρ ο ι ς]. The pure in heart
and conscience. See 2 Timothy 1:3.
All things are pure. Comp. 1 Timothy 4:4; 1 Timothy 4:5; Acts
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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...
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To the pure — Those whose hearts are purified by faith this we
allow. All things are pure — All kinds of meat; the Mosaic
distinction between clean and unclean meats being now taken away. But
to the d...
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Here our apostle intimates what those Jewish traditions and fables
were, which those judaizing doctors and false teachers would intrude
and impose upon persons at that time, namely, pretences that men...