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TITUS CHAPTER 2
Tit_1:1-4 The salutation.
Tit_1:5 For what end Titus was left in Crete.
Tit_1:6-9 How they should be qualified who are ordained
to the ministry.
Tit_1:10,11 The mouths of evil teachers must be stopped.
Tit_1:12-16 The bad character of the Cretians.
Paul, a servant of God; that is, in the work of the ministry.
And an apostle of Jesus Christ; who glory in this as my greatest honour and dignity, that I was one immediately sent by Jesus Christ to preach the gospel.
According to the faith of God's elect; kata pistin according to what the elect, or chosen of God from the beginning of the world, have believed; so as it is no new doctrine which I bring: or else kata here should be translated for, denoting the final cause, as some judge it signifieth, 2Ti_1:1, and in Tit_1:9 of this chapter; then the sense is, that he was sent to be an instrument to beget faith in such as God had chosen unto life. Act_26:18, for those only ordained to eternal life believe, Act_13:48, and Paul was sent to be a helper of their faith. Some think the apostle by this phrase only distinguisheth himself from the ministers of the law.
And the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; to which faith men are brought by the knowledge of the truth, and it worketh by the owning, profession, and acknowledgment of the truth; not all propositions of truth, but that which is productive of a godly life, lying in the true worship of God, and a universal obedience to the Divine will.