Robertson Word Pictures - Titus 1:4 - 1:4

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Robertson Word Pictures - Titus 1:4 - 1:4


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My true child (gnēsiōi teknōi). See note on 1Ti 1:2 for this adjective with Timothy. Titus is not mentioned in Acts, possibly because he is Luke’s brother. But one can get a clear picture of him by turning to 2Co 2:13; 2Co 7:6-15; 8:6-24; 2Co 12:16-18; Gal 2:1-3; Tit 1:4.; Tit 3:12; 2Ti 4:10. He had succeeded in Corinth where Timothy had failed. Paul had left him in Crete as superintendent of the work there. Now he writes him from Nicopolis (Tit 3:12).

After a common faith (kata Koinéēn pistin). Here kata does mean standard, not aim, but it is a faith (pistin) common to a Gentile (a Greek) like Titus as well as to a Jew like Paul and so common to all races and classes (Jud 1:3). Koinéos does not here have the notion of unclean as in Act 10:14; Act 11:8.