Titus 1
PNTTitus 1:1
Not because we have not power. A right to support at your hands, But to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. But because we wished to set you an example of industry.
Titus 1:2
This we commanded you. Even then he gave a command that if any refused to work for their food, they should be refused support by others. He who is able to work, and unwilling, should not be fed.
Titus 1:3
We hear. The word was brought, no doubt, by the messenger who returned to him. Who walk among you disorderly. By doing nothing. It is a sin to be an idler. God requires industry. Busybodies. “The devil finds some mischief, still, for idle hands to do”.
Titus 1:4
Now them that are such we command. Such are solemnly commanded in the name of Christ to go to work, to live quiet lives, and to support themselves. The idlers were restless and meddlesome.
Titus 1:5
Be not weary in well doing. Do not get weary of the duties of life, so as to desire an idle life. Discharge all duties faithfully, whether secular or religious.
Titus 1:6
If any man obeyeth not our word. Whoever does not obey these charges, let him be noted, withdrawn from. See 2 Thessalonians 3:6. That he may be ashamed. He must be made ashamed of his course by seeing that it is repudiated by the church.
Titus 1:7
Yet count [him] not as an enemy. The object of discipline is to save. Compare 1 Corinthians 5:5. But admonish [him] as a brother. Give him kind and brotherly admonition, and let him know the reason for your course.
Titus 1:8
The Lord of peace. Christ, who bestows peace upon all who walk in him.
Titus 1:9
With mine own hand. Here he adds the salutation in his own handwriting. The Epistle thus far had been written by one to whom he dictated, as was his custom, but he now adds his autograph. Which is the token of every epistle. This autograph was proof of the genuineness. Their attention is perhaps called to this on account of a spurious epistle (2 Thessalonians 2:2).
Titus 1:13
The Work Assigned to Timothy SUMMARY OF I TIMOTHY 1: Greetings. Why Timothy Was Left at Ephesus. The True Object of the Commandment. Whom the Law Affects. Paul’s Call to the Apostleship. Hymenaeus and Alexander. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ. As one object of this letter was to strengthen Timothy’s authority, Paul writes as an apostle. By the commandment of God. See Romans 16:26. As the Judaizing opposers tried to show that Paul was inferior to Peter and the other apostles, he often recalls the fact that his appointment came not from them, and that he was independent of them. The Lord sent him to the Gentiles, as they were sent to the Jews (Acts 9:15).
Titus 1:14
Timothy, [my] own son in the faith. One of his converts. Compare Titus 1:4.
Titus 1:15
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus. Paul, it is presumed, seeing on the occasion of his last visit the need of a trusty evangelist at Ephesus to counteract the errors which were arising, had left Timothy behind. He was not left there as a bishop, as has been sometimes claimed, for we find that a part of his business was to appoint bishops; but as the representative of the apostle, an evangelist. The office of Titus in Crete was similar. That they teach no other doctrine. Than the gospel which they had been taught. Some of the errors which he was to correct are stated in 1 Timothy 1:4.
Titus 1:16
Neither give heed to fables. The fables are called “Jewish” in Titus 1:14. It is likely such fables as those of the Talmud are meant, legends which have been added to the history of the Old Testament, additions to the Scriptures. Though the Talmud was committed to writing a little later, it aimed to collect the legends and traditions which had been long in existence. Endless genealogies. Philo, a learned Alexandrian Jew who wrote a little before Paul’s time, built up a whole system on genealogies. The names in the genealogies with him represented the various conditions of the soul. Some have supposed that Paul refers to some foolish fancies of the Gnostics, but those were of later date. Which minister questions. Raise discussions.