Tit 2:1-15. DIRECTIONS TO TITUS: HOW TO EXHORT VARIOUS CLASSES OF BELIEVERS: THE GRACE OF GOD IN CHRIST OUR GRAND INCENTIVE TO LIVE GODLY.
1. But . . . thou--in contrast to the reprobate
seducers stigmatized in
Tit 1:11, 15, 16.
"He deals more in exhortations, because those intent on useless
questions needed chiefly to be recalled to the study of a holy, moral
life; for nothing so effectually allays men's wandering curiosity, as
the being brought to recognize those duties in which they ought to
exercise themselves" [CALVIN].
speak--without restraint: contrast
Tit 1:11,
"mouths . . . stopped."
doctrine--"instruction" or "teaching."
JFB.
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