10. Aiperixbv, a heretic) one following, according to his own will, the things which are found fault with at ver. 9. — -rapa/roC/, reject) cease to admonish him, for of what advantage is it ? We should be labouring in vain.1 Matt. vii. 6.
11. 'Egitfrpafl-ra/) It is thus the LXX. translate the Hebrew "jDn, Deut. xxxii. 20. — apaprdvei, sins) Whatever he does and thinks, he is wrong. — uJv avroxaraKptroz) xpiffig sa-jroC, his own judgment, accompanies sin (apapriav), and/taraxf/<r/£, condemnation, follows close after ; Rom. xiv. 22, 23.
12. ' Aprs/tan r, Tv%r/.bv9 Artemas or Tychicus) into whose hands Titus might deliver the lamp of the Gospel. — eXQeft vpog fit, to come to me) when affairs in Crete shall have been more fully set in order. — exe?, there) He does not say here, Paul was not yet at Nicopolis.
13. "iva ftqdev, that nothing) Titus therefore had the means. They did not go empty.
14. Mavdavsrucravj let them learn) by thy admonition and example. — xai o't viperepoi, ours also) not only we, but also ours, whom we have gained at Crete. These seem not to have given sufficient assistance to Zenas and Apollos, when they ought to have done so. [It is not proper that some should ever and anon devolve the business in hand from themselves upon others. — Y. g.] Zenas and Apollos were already in Crete with Titus ; for this is the reason why he distinguishes them from Artemas and Tychicus, who were not until afterwards to be sent. — e/g rag avayxsias yjtiac, for necessary uses) even as spiritual necessity [i.e. the tie which necessarily binds saints to help one another] re quires ; so xpeia, Acts vi. 3. Spiritual necessity [< necessitudo,' tie of necessary obligation or relationship] lays the foundation of obligations, so that one cannot withdraw from another [so as not to help him].
1 The proverb is, we should be washing a brick.