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Titus 1
Verse 1. Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ - Titles
suitable to the person of Paul, and the office he was assigning to
Titus. According to the faith - The propagating of which is the
proper business of an apostle. A servant of God - According to the
faith of the elect. An apostle of Jesus Christ - According to the
knowledge of the truth. We serve God according to the measure
of our faith: we fulfil our public office according to the measure
of our knowledge. The truth that is after godliness - Which in
every point runs parallel with and supports the vital, spiritual
worship of God; and, indeed, has no other end or scope. These
two verses contain the sum of Christianity, which Titus was
always to have in his eye. Of the elect of God - Of all real
Christians
Verse 2. In hope of eternal life - The grand motive and encouragement
of every apostle and every servant of God. Which God promised
before the world began - To Christ, our Head.
Verse 3. And he hath in his own times - At sundry times; and his own
times are fittest for his own work. What creature dares ask, "Why
no sooner?" Manifested his word - Containing that promise, and
the whole "truth which is after godliness." Through the preaching
wherewith I am intrusted according to the commandment of God
our saviour - And who dares exercise this office on any less
authority?
Verse 4. My own son - Begot in the same image of God, and repaying a
paternal with a filial affection. The common faith - Common to
me and all my spiritual children.
Verse 5. The things which are wanting - Which I had not time to settle
myself. Ordain elders - Appoint the most faithful, zealous men to
watch over the rest. Their character follows, Tit i, 6-9. These were
the elders, or bishops, that Paul approved of;-men that had living
faith, a pure conscience, a blameless life.
Verse 6. The husband of one wife - Surely the Holy Ghost, by repeating
this so often, designed to leave the Romanists without excuse.
Verse 7. As the steward of God - To whom he intrusts immortal souls.
Not selfwilled - Literally, pleasing himself; but all men "for their
good to edification." Not passionate - But mild, yielding, tender.
Verse 9. As he hath been taught - Perhaps it might be more literally
rendered, according to the teaching, or doctrine, of the apostles;
alluding to Acts ii, 42.
Verse 10. They of the circumcision - The Jewish converts.
Verse 11. Stopped - The word properly means, to put a bit into the
mouth of an unruly horse.
Verse 12. A prophet - So all poets were anciently called; but, besides,
Diogenes Laertius says that Epimenides, the Cretan poet, foretold
many things. Evil wild beasts - Fierce and savage.
Verse 14. Commandments of men - The Jewish or other teachers,
whoever they were that turned from the truth.
Verse 15. 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 defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure - The
apostle joins defiled and unbelieving, to intimate that nothing can
be clean without a true faith: for both the understanding and
conscience, those leading powers of the soul, are polluted;
consequently, so is the man and all he does.
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