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No, not for an hour (oude pros hōran). Pointed denial that he and Barnabas yielded at all “in the way of subjection” (tēi hupotagēi, in the subjection demanded of them). The compromisers pleaded for the circumcision of Titus “because of the false brethren” in order to have peace. The old verb eikō, to yield, occurs here alone in the N.T. See note on 2Co 9:13 for hupotagē.
The truth of the gospel (hē alētheia tou euaggeliou). It was a grave crisis to call for such language. The whole problem of Gentile Christianity was involved in the case of Titus, whether Christianity was to be merely a modified brand of legalistic Judaism or a spiritual religion, the true Judaism (the children of Abraham by faith). The case of Timothy later was utterly different, for he had a Jewish mother and a Greek father. Titus was pure Greek.