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A Necessary Severity
Commentators explain that Paul's command to "rebuke them sharply" is not a call for angry outbursts but for a precise, "cutting" correction. Multiple scholars use the analogy of a surgeon's knife, which cuts away diseased tissue to save the patient. This type of firm, direct confrontation is sometimes necessary to address serious error and sin within the church.
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Albert Barnes
On Titus 1:13
18th Century
Theologian
This witness is true. That is, this testimony, given long before by one of their own number, was true when the apostle wrote to Titus. The…
AT Robertson
On Titus 1:13
Testimony (μαρτυρια). Of the poet Epimenides. Paul endorses it from his recent knowledge.
Sharply (αποτομω…
Charles Ellicott
On Titus 1:13
19th Century
Bishop
This witness is true.—St. Paul emphatically here endorses the very severe judgment which their own great prophet-poet had…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Titus 1:13–16
19th Century
Preacher
This was bad soil; but it had to be plowed, and to be sown, and with an Almighty God at the back of the gospel plower and sower, a fruitful harvest…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Titus 1:13
(13a) Paul’s own observations confirm the adverse judgment. Probably he had some unpleasant experiences on the island that verified the verdict.
John Calvin
On Titus 1:13
16th Century
Theologian
This testimony is true. However worthy the witness may have been, yet the truth which has been spoken by him is acknowledged by Paul. The …
John Gill
On Titus 1:13
17th Century
Pastor
This witness is true
The apostle confirms what the poet had said; he knew it to be fact from his own experience, and…
Matthew Henry
On Titus 1:10–16
17th Century
Minister
False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose them promptly, so that, their folly being exposed, they may not proceed further. They …