decorum. — ytaracr^a, behaviour ', dress [* habitus' exterior], is used here of the ornament of the virtues, which are presently enumerated. — jcaratfrjj/Aa is used in a large sense, as we find in the Greek Lexicon formerly printed at Basle in fol. — 5s3ou>.w- ftsvas, enslaved, under slavery to) It is indeed slavery not to overcome the appetite ; 2 Pet. ii. 19. — xaXodidaffxdXovc) teachers of good things, as follows.
4. 2u<ppov/%u<ri rag vsccg, that they may teach the young women to be sober) Titus is enjoined to treat the Cretan women with somewhat greater severity than Timothy was to treat the women of Ephesus, 1 Tim. v. 2. He himself was to admonish the latter; Titus is to admonish the former, by means of the women who were more advanced in age.
*7. Tlspl Trdvra) in all things. — csavrbv, thyself) Even thou, Titus, though rather young thyself. — w ry dida<f%aXiq, in doctrine) Public doctrine or teaching is intended, to which Xoyog, the word, in daily practice is presently opposed. In the case of the for mer, &<p&opia and tfg/Ai/oV^ are required, to which the epithets iyiri and axarayvuffrov correspond in the case of the latter, so that the subject-matter and the form may be rightly framed in the case of both. — apdopiav) viz. vctps^ofAevos : here we must not repeat asavrov.
8. 'EvrpaKfr may be confounded) The great force of truth and innocence.
9. AouXouj, servants) namely, exhort, ver. 6.
10. 'A/a^v, good) in things not evil. — xotftuffiv, may adorn) The lower the condition of servants, the more beautifully is their piety described. [Even such as they should not cast themselves away, as if it ivere of no importance what sort of persons they were.
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11. 'E'TTspdvr) yap 97 %«/>/£, for the grace has appeared) There is a double appearance, viz. that of grace and that of glory, ver. 13. — ffuTvjpiof, that bringeth salvation) as the very name, Jesus, indicates [comp. ver. 10]. — TTOCOVV, to all) [of whom so many
the 2d Ed. refers ispoirpeirei to the more certain readings, which the Germ. Vers., corresponding to the Gnomon, imitates. — E. B.
AD(A)GH Rec. Text read lepoirptiretg. But Cfg Vulg. read lepoTrpeKe't. —ED.
ver. 5, properly, those who keep the house, Prov. vii. 11. —