![]() ![]() ![]() This chapter contains the inscription of the epistle, the apostle's salutation and preface to it an account of the qualifications of an eider, or pastor of a church a description of these teachers and a charge to Titus to rebuke the Cretians for their errors and immoralities. As he was a Greek, so his name is a Greek name, yet used among the Romans, as Titus Vespasian, and others T. He was employed by the apostle much, and sent into various parts, on different occasions: he sent him to Corinth, to finish there the collection for the poor saints at Jerusalem, 2Co 8:6,16,17 and to Dalmatia, to know the state of the saints there, and to confirm them in the faith, 2Ti 4:10. ![]() He was a man of great grace, and large gifts, and very dear to the apostle: he calls him his brother, his partner, and fellow helper, and says he walked in the same spirit, and in the same steps, \ 2Co 2:13 8:23 12:18\. Titus, to whom this epistle is inscribed, was a Greek, an uncircumcised Gentile, and so remained nor did the apostle circumcise him, as he did Timothy, when he became his companion nor did the apostles at Jerusalem oblige him to be circumcised, when Paul took him with Barnabas along with him thither, Ga 2:1,3. ![]()
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