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Tit_3:10-11. An injunction regarding behaviour towards the heretics.
Αἱρετικὸν ἄνθρωπον ] αἱρετικός ( ἅπ . λεγ .) is not equivalent to contentiosus, but is, according to Calvin: quisquis sua protervia unitatem ecclesiae abrumpit, any one who causes departure from the pure sound doctrine of the gospel. With this Wiesinger agrees, only that he wishes to consider the divisions as not brought about by heresies, but by “eccentricities and perversities.” The word αἱρέσεις is often used by Paul of ecclesiastical divisions, 1Co_11:19; Gal_5:20. So, too, in 2Pe_2:1, where it expressly refers to heresies. Comp. also Rom_16:17 : παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς σκοπεῖν τοὺς τὰς διχοστασίας καὶ τὰ σκάνδαλα παρὰ τὴν διδαχὴν ἣν ὑμεῖς ἐμάθετε ποιοῦντας καὶ ἐκκλίνατε ἀπʼ αὐτῶν .
μετὰ μίαν καὶ δευτέραν νουθεσίαν παραιτοῦ ] Vitringa (De Vet. Synag. iii. 1. 10) understands παραιτοῦ to mean the formal excommunication, and νουθεσία the excommunicatio privata, as these were appointed among the Jews for certain cases. But he is wrong; Paul is not speaking here of excommunication proper. Νουθεσία (1Co_10:11; Eph_6:4) is equivalent to “reprimand,” including both blame and exhortation. This is not to be employed once, but several times: “after one or two.”
παραιτοῦ ] 1Ti_4:7. Bengel: monere desine, quid enim juvat? laterem lavares.
Tit_3:11. εἰδώς ] see 2Ti_2:23.
ὅτι ἐξέστραπται ὁ τοιοῦτος ] “that such an one is perverse;” comp. Deu_32:20 : ὅτι γενεὰ ἐξεστραμμένη ἐστιν , ãÌåÉø úÌÇçÀôÌËçÉú ; it shows the total perversion of thought and endeavour. Baur says arbitrarily and wrongly: “he has turned away from us, and departed out of the communion of believers.”
καὶ ἁμαρτάνει ὢν αὐτοκατάκριτος ] defines the preceding words more precisely. Ὢν αὐτοκατάκριτος is connected with ἁμαρτάνει , but not with ἐξέστραπται also (Hofmann). The perversity shows itself in the fact that he sins condemning himself. Αὐτοκατάκριτος is equivalent to κεκαυτηριασμένος τὴν ἰδίαν συνείδησιν , 1Ti_4:2, qui suopte judicio est condemnatus. The meaning is: he sins with the consciousness of his guilt and of his own condemnation, so that there is no hope of his return.