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Ver. 2. A quiet, inoffensive demeanour in the more private relations of life is now inculcated: to revile no man, to be not contentious, forbearing, showing all meekness unto all men. The first verb, âëáóöçìåῖí , imports more than to speak evil in the ordinary sense; it is to act the part of a reviler or slanderer; and when used of conduct from one man toward another, always betokens the exercise of a very bitter and malignant spirit. Titus was to charge the Christians of Crete to give no exhibition toward any one of such a spirit, nor to show a quarrelsome disposition, but, on the contrary, to cultivate a mild, placable, and gentle temper.