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Tit 3:14. Μανθανέτωσαν, let them learn) by thy admonition and example.-καὶ οἱ ἡμέτεροι, ours also) not only we, but also ours, whom we have gained at Crete. These seem not to have given sufficient assistance to Zenas and Apollos, when they ought to have done so. [It is not proper that some should ever and anon devolve the business in hand from themselves upon others.-V. g.] Zenas and Apollos were already in Crete with Titus; for this is the reason why he distinguishes them from Artemas and Tychicus, who were not until afterwards to be sent.-εἰς τὰς ἀναγκείας χρείας, for necessary uses) even as spiritual necessity [i.e. the tie which necessarily binds saints to help one another] requires; so χρεία, Act 6:3. Spiritual necessity [‘necessitudo,’ tie of necessary obligation or relationship] lays the foundation of obligations, so that one cannot withdraw from another [so as not to help him].[15]
[15] Bengel, J. A. (1860). Vol. 4: Gnomon of the New Testament (M. E. Bengel & J. C. F. Steudel, Ed.) (J. Bryce, Trans.) (317-326). Edinburgh: T&T Clark.