Titus
The Epistle of Paul to Titus, usually referred to simply as
Titus, is one of the three Pastoral Epistles (with 1 Timothy
and 2 Timothy), traditionally attributed to Saint Paul, and is
part of the New Testament. It describes the requirements and
duties of elders and bishops......
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TITUS or TITIUS JUSTUS
(Titos or Titios Ioustos (Acts 18:7)): Titus or Titius--for
the manuscripts vary in regard to the spelling--was the
prenomen of a certain Corinthian, a Jewish proselyte
(sebomenos ton Theon). See PROSELYTE). His name seems also
to indicate that he was a Roman by birth. He is altogether a
different person from Titus, Paul...
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ti'-tus (Titos (2 Cor 2:13; 7:6,13 ff; 8:6,16,23; 12:18;
Ga1:2:1,3; 2 Tim 4:10; Tit 1:4)):
1. One of Paul's Converts:
A Greek Christian, one of Paul's intimate friends, his
companion in some of his apostolic journeys, and one of his
assistants in Christian work. His name does not occur in the
Acts; and, elsewhere in the New Testament, it is fou...
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There are no specialties in this epistle which require any
very elaborate treatment distinct from the other Pastoral
Letters of St. Paul. It was written about the same time and
under similar circumstances with the other two i.e., from
Ephesus, in the autumn of 67 in the interval between Paul's
two Roman imprisonments....
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Our materials for the biography of this companion of St.
Paul must be drawn entirely from the notices of him in the
Second Epistle to the Corinthians, the Galatians, and to
Titus himself, combined with the Second Epistle to Timothy.
He is not mentioned in the Acts at all. Taking the passages
in the epistles in the chronological order of the ev...
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was probably written about the same time as the first
epistle to
Timothy, with which it has many affinities. "Both
letters were
addressed to persons left by the writer to preside
in their
respective churches during his absence. Both letters
are
principally occupied in describing the
qualifications to be
sought for in those whom they shoul...
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honourable, was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, and
accompanied them to the council at Jerusalem (Gal.
2:1-3; Acts
15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts
of the
Apostles. He appears to have been a Gentile, and to
have been
chiefly engaged in ministering to Gentiles; for Paul
sternly
refused to have him circumcised, inasmuch...
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frontTIMOTHY, EPISTLES TO.) Genuineness. Ignatius (Tralles,
3) uses "behaviour" (katasteema), in the New Testament found
only in Titus 2:3. Clement of Rome quotes it, Ep. ad Cor. 2
Irenaeus, i. 16, section 3, calls it Paul's epistle.
Theophilus (ad Autol. iii. 14) quotes it as Scripture.
Justin Martyr in the second century alludes to Titus 3:4...
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Paul's companion in missionary tours. Not mentioned in Acts.
A Greek, and therefore a Gentile (Galatians 2:1; Galatians
2:3); converted through Paul (Titus 1:4), "mine own son
after the common faith." Included in the "certain other of
them" who accompanied the apostle and Barnabas when they
were deputed from the church of Antioch to consult th...
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