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Tit_1:13. In confirmation of the verse quoted, Paul says: ἡ μαρτυρία αὕτη ἐστὶν ἀληθής , and attaches to it an exhortation to Titus. Bertholdt, without reason, holds this verse to be a later interpolation.
διʼ ἣν αἰτίαν ] see 2Ti_1:6. Chrysostom: ΔΙᾺ ΤΟῦΤΟ · ἘΠΕΙΔῊ ἬΘΟς ΑὐΤΟῖς ἘΣΤῚΝ ἸΤΑΜῸΝ ΚΑῚ ΔΟΛΕΡῸΝ ΚΑῚ ἈΚΌΛΑΣΤΟΝ ; it refers to the picture of the Cretan character given in the testimony.
ἜΛΕΓΧΕ ΑὐΤΟῪς ἈΠΟΤΌΜΩς ] ἜΛΕΓΧΕ , as in Tit_1:9; “the apostle here drops all reference to the bishops to be appointed, and assigns to Titus himself the duty of applying a remedy” (Wiesinger).
ΑὐΤΟΎς ] not so much the heretics as the Cretans, who were exposed to their misleading influence. These latter needed the ἘΛΈΓΧΕΙΝ , because they were not resisting the heretics as they ought, but (as ΟἽΤΙΝΕς ὍΛΟΥς ΟἼΚΟΥς ἈΝΑΤΡΈΠΟΥΙ shows) were yielding to them easily.
ἈΠΟΤΌΜΩς ] “sharply, strictly;” elsewhere only in 2Co_13:10; the substantive ἈΠΟΤΟΜΊΑ in Rom_11:22.
ἽΝΑ ὙΓΙΑΊΝΩΣΙΝ ἘΝ Τῇ ΠΊΣΤΕΙ ] “that they may be sound in the faith.” De Wette takes this as the immediate contents of the ἐλέγχειν , just as ἽΝΑ occurs with ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕῖΝ , but without good grounds. ἘΝ here is not instrumental (Heinrichs: per religionem), but ΠΊΣΤΙς is the subject in which they are to be sound.