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Tit_1:6. Εἴ τις ἐστίν ] This form is not, as Heinrichs and Heydenreich think, selected to express a doubt whether such men could be found among the corrupt Cretans. The meaning is rather: “only such an one as.”
ἀνέγκλητος ] see 1Ti_3:10; ἀνεπίληπτος is used in 1Ti_3:2. The objection which de Wette raises on the ground that Titus is in the first place to have regard to external blamelessness, has been proved by Wiesinger to have no foundation whatever.
μιᾶς γυν . ἀνήρ ] see 1Ti_3:2.
τέκνα ἔχων πιστά ] comp. 1Ti_3:4-5; πιστά , in contrast to those that were not Christian, or were Christian only in name.
μὴ ἐν κατηγορίᾳ ἀσωτίας ] “qui non sunt obnoxii crimini luxus” (Wolf); ἀσωτία is a debauched, sensual mode of life (1Pe_4:4; Eph_5:18). Chrysostom: οὐκ εἶπε μὴ ἁπλῶς ἄσωτος , ἀλλὰ μηδὲ διαβολὴν ἔχειν τοιαύτην , μηδὲ πονηρᾶς εἶναι δόξης .
ἢ ἀνυπότακτα ] see 1Ti_3:5. Comp. the picture of the sons of Eli in 1Sa_2:12 ff. As the bishop is to be an example to the church, his own house must be well conducted.