Titus 1

Notes on the verses

Chap. I. Ver. 1—14. Christ coming in these last times, is preferred before the angels.—The greater part of this epistle Chap. I. Ver. 1, At sundry times.—Macknight, “in sundry other. Ch. er. 1. Al.—caught, say parts.’ So Pierce explains it: ‘God discovered his will anciently in several parts, or less was the event. Ver. 2, 4. Marcus, &c.—See (Colossians 4:10, 12, 14). a sent friend, for a beloved convert in a state of slavery, in a manner full of kindly affection, according with the sensibility of his mind, which it is now extant. St. Paul’s name is not affixed to this Epistle (which he probably omitted because he was obnoxious to the enemies of Christianity in Judea,) yet the general testimony of antiquity, the current tradition of the church, the superscription, ‘The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews,’ being found in all our manuscripts, except one, and the agreement of the style, or phrases, allusions, and exhortations, with those in the acknowledged Epistles of St.

Paul, determine it to be the genuine production of that eminent Apostle; to which conclusion Carpzov, Whitby, Lardner, Macknight, Hales, Rosenmuller, Bengel, Bishop Tomline, Horne, Townsend, and almost every other modern commentator and critic, after weighing the mass of evidence, both external and internal, are constrained to arrive. If then St. Paul was the author of this Epistle, the time when, and the place where, it was written, may be easily ascertained; for the salutation from the saints in Italy, (ch. xiii. 24,) and his promise of seeing the Hebrews shortly, (ver. 23,) plainly intimate that his first imprisonment at Rome was then terminated, or on the point of being so. Consequently it was written from Italy, perhaps from Rome, soon after the Epistles to the Colossians, Philippians, and Philemon, either at the end of A.

D. 62, or more probably in the beginning of the year 63. The grand design of the Apostle, in writing this Epistle, was, [to] the Jews in Palestine, who were then in a state of poverty, affliction, and persecution, against apostacy from the faith; by proving the truth of the grand doctrines of Christianity, and by showing that it was the completion and perfection of the Mosaic dispensation, the rites and ceremonies of which were but types of the New Testament dispensation.) —Bagster. A. M. cir. 2 Hath in these last days > spoken unto us by A. D. cir.63. | his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all a Nu. 1268 | things, by whom 4 also he made the worlds; consists in a comparison and contrast between the law and the gospel, and it begins with comparing the manner of their parcels; so that one part was to be learned from one prophet, and another from another.’——And in divers manners.—Macknight remarks.

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