Charles Spurgeon Commentary Titus 2
Charles Spurgeon Commentary
Titus 2
Charles Spurgeon Commentary
Titus 2
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This author has written multiple commentaries over their lifetime on this chapter. We have grouped their commentaries for easier reading."But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:" — Titus 2:1 (ASV)
There are certain things that are suitable to go with sound doctrine; they are proper, fit, and appropriate to it.
"that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:" — Titus 2:2 (ASV)
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Among unbelievers, old men often gave themselves up to drunkenness and gluttony; so now, this is the teaching that is to be given to aged Christian men. They need faith, love, and patience, as well as the virtues of sobriety, gravity, and temperance. The infirmities of old age often create petulance, so the grace of God is to make the venerable Christian to be full of faith, love, and patience.
"that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;" — Titus 2:3 (ASV)
Older women also among pagans were often given to drinking much wine, so here they are cautioned against it by the Spirit of God. They are also tempted to spread slanderous reports against people. Having little to do in their old age, they are prone to use their idle time for mischief. So, they are warned not to be false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things.
And how beautifully can an aged Christian woman, by her kindly example, be a teacher of good things! I think there is no more charming sight on earth than that of an elderly Christian lady whose words and whose whole life are such as befit the gospel of Christ.
"that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, [to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:" — Titus 2:4-5 (ASV)
There were some women who assumed that, the moment they became Christians, they were to run about everywhere. "No," says the apostle, "let them keep at home." There is no gain to the Christian Church when the love, and the industry, and the zeal that ought to make a happy home are squandered on something else.
The young women of Crete appear to have been such that they needed to be taught to love their husbands. That expression does not occur elsewhere in Scripture. Christian women do not need to be told to love their husbands; but these Cretans, just brought out of the slough of sin, had to be taught even this lesson.
Oh, what a blessing love is in the marriage relationship, and what a gracious influence love has on children! How are they to be brought up correctly unless the whole house is perfumed with love?
"the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:" — Titus 2:6 (ASV)
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. (Titus 2:6)
They are full of spirits, they are very sanguine, they are apt to be carried away with novelties; exhort them to have that which is thought to be a virtue of age, namely, sobriety. Let them be old when they are young that they may be young when they are old.
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