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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Titus Chapter 2 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Titus Chapter 2 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. sober--Translated "vigilant," as sober men alone can be
(1Ti 3:2).
But "sober" here answers to "not given to wine,"
Tit 2:3; Tit 1:7.
grave--"dignified"; behaving with reverent propriety.
temperate--"self-restrained"; "discreet" [ALFORD],
(Tit 1:8; 1Ti 2:9).
faith . . . charity [love] . . . patience--combined in
1Ti 6:11.
"Faith, hope, charity"
(1Co 13:13).
"Patience," Greek, "enduring perseverance," is the attendant on, and is supported by, "hope"
(1Co 13:7; 1Th 1:3).
It is the grace which especially becomes old men, being the fruit of ripened experience derived from trials overcome
(Ro 5:3).
Titus Chapter 2 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3. behaviour--"deportment."
as becometh holiness--"as becometh women consecrated to God" [WAHL]: being by our Christian calling priestesses unto God
(Eph 5:3; 1Ti 2:10).
"Observant of sacred decorum" [BENGEL].
not false accusers--not slanderers: a besetting sin of some elderly women.
given to much wine--the besetting sin of the Cretans
(Tit 1:12).
Literally, "enslaved to much wine." Addiction to wine is slavery
(Ro 6:16; 2Pe 2:19).
teachers--in private: not in public
(1Co 14:34; 1Ti 2:11, 12);
influencing for good the younger women by precept and example.
Titus Chapter 2 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. to be sober--Greek, "self-restrained," "discreet"; the same Greek as in
Tit 2:2,
"temperate." (But see on
Tit 2:2;
compare Note,
2Ti 1:7).
ALFORD therefore translates, "That they school (admonish in their duty) the young women to be lovers of their husbands," &c. (the foundation of all domestic happiness). It was judicious that Titus, a young man, should admonish the young women, not directly, but through the older women.
Titus Chapter 2 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. keepers at home--as "guardians of the house," as the Greek expresses. The oldest manuscripts read, "Workers at home": active in household duties
(Pr 7:11; 1Ti 5:13).
good--kind, beneficent
(Mt 20:15; Ro 5:7; 1Pe 2:18).
Not churlish and niggardly, but thrifty as housewives.
obedient--rather "submissive," as the Greek is translated; (see on
Eph 5:21, 22;
Eph 5:24).
their own--marking the duty of subjection which they owe them, as being their own husbands
(Eph 5:22; Col 3:18).
blasphemed--"evil spoken of." That no reproach may be cast on the Gospel, through the inconsistencies of its professors
(Tit 2:8, 10; Ro 2:24; 1Ti 5:14; 6:1).
"Unless we are virtuous, blasphemy will come through us to the faith" [THEOPHYLACT].
Titus Chapter 2 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6. Young--Greek, "The younger men."
sober-minded--self-restrained [ALFORD]. "Nothing is so hard at this age as to overcome pleasures and follies" [CHRYSOSTOM].
Titus Chapter 2 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. In--with respect to all things.
thyself a pattern--though but a young man thyself. All teaching is useless unless the teacher's example confirm his word.
in doctrine--in thy ministerial teaching (showing) uncorruptness, that is, untainted purity of motive on thy part (compare
2Co 11:3),
so as to be "a pattern" to all. As "gravity," &c., refers to Titus himself, so "uncorruptness"; though, doubtless, uncorruptness of the doctrine will be sure to follow as a consequence of the Christian minister being of simple, uncorrupt integrity himself.
gravity--dignified seriousness in setting forth the truth.
sincerity--omitted in the oldest manuscripts.
Titus Chapter 2 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. speech--discourse in public and private ministrations.
he that is of the contrary part--the adversary
(Tit 1:9; 2Ti 2:25),
whether he be heathen or Jew.
may be ashamed--put to confusion by the power of truth and innocence (compare
Tit 2:5, 10; 1Ti 5:14; 6:1).
no evil thing--in our acts, or demeanor.
of you--So one of the oldest manuscripts. Other very old manuscripts read, "of US," Christians.
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."