Titus 1
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Fragments of the Epistle to Titus 1:11-15 on Papyrus 32, from ca. AD 200.
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| Book | Epistle to Titus |
| Bible part | New Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 17 |
| Category | Pauline epistles |
Titus 1 is the first chapter of the Epistle to Titus in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and addressed to Saint Titus.
This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible):
Also "my genuine child" (as in 1 Timothy 1:2), that is, "converted by my instrumentality" (1 Corinthians 4:17; Philemon 1:10).
Paul treated Titus as "a genuine son" in respect to (in virtue of) "the faith common to all the people of God", comprising in a common brotherhood Gentiles as well as Jews, therefore embracing Titus a Gentile (2 Peter 1:1; Jude 1:3).
The word "mercy" is omitted in some of the oldest manuscripts. But one of the best and oldest manuscripts supports it (see 1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:2). There are many similarities of phrase in the Pastoral Epistles.
This was Epimenides, in whose poems stand the words here cited; the apostle rightly calls him "one of themselves", since he was a Cretian by birth, of the city of Gnossus; it is reported of him, that being sent by his father to his sheep in the field, he by the way, at noon, turned aside into a cave, and slept fifty seven years and he is very properly called a "prophet" of their own; for in Crete Jupiter had his prophets, and he might be one of them: the priests among the Heathens were called prophets; so Baal's priests are called the prophets of Baal, and the prophets of the groves, (1 Kings 18:19) . Besides, Epimenides was thought to be inspired by the gods: he is called by Apuleius, a famous fortune teller; and is said by Laertius to be very skilful in divination, and to have foretold many things which came to pass; and by the Grecians were supposed to be very dear to the gods; so Balaam, the soothsayer and diviner, is called a prophet, (2 Peter 2:16). Add to this, that the passage next cited stands in a poem of this writer, entitled, "Concerning Oracles"; and it is easy to observe, that poets in common were usually called "vates", or prophets; so that the apostle speaks here with great propriety. Now concerning the inhabitants of Crete, Epimenides, a native of the place, and a person of great character and repute among them,
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