Titus 1

Titus 1:2

Neither let him eat - Do not maintain him in idleness.

Titus 1:3

Doing nothing, but being busybodies - To which idleness naturally disposes.

Titus 1:4

Work quietly - Letting the concerns of other people alone.

Titus 1:6

Have no company with him - No intimacy, no familiarity, no needless correspondence.

Titus 1:7

Admonish him as a brother - Tell him lovingly of the reason why you shun him.

Titus 1:8

The Lord of peace - Christ. Give you peace by all means - In every way and manner.

Titus 1:13

Paul an apostle - Familiarity is to be set aside where the things of God are concerned. According to the commandment of God - The authoritative appointment of God the Father. Our Saviour - So styled in many other places likewise, as being the grand orderer of the whole scheme of our salvation. And Christ our hope - That is, the author, object, and ground, of all our hope.

Titus 1:14

Grace, mercy, peace - St. Paul wishes grace and peace in his epistles to the churches. To Timotheus he adds mercy, the most tender grace towards those who stand in need of it. The experience of this prepares a man to be a minister of the gospel.

Titus 1:15

Charge some to teach no other doctrine - Than I have taught. Let them put nothing in the place of it, add nothing to it.

Titus 1:16

Neither give heed - So as either to teach or regard them. To fables - Fabulous Jewish traditions. And endless genealogies - Nor those delivered in scripture, but the long intricate pedigrees whereby they strove to prove their descent from such or such a person. Which afford questions - Which lead only to useless and endless controversies.