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This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Testimony (μαρτυρια). Of the poet Epimenides. Paul endorses it from his recent knowledge.
Sharply (αποτομω…
19th Century
Anglican
This witness is true.—St. Paul emphatically here endorses the very severe judgment which their own great prophet-poet had…
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Baptist
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…
(13a) Paul’s own observations confirm the adverse judgment. Probably he had some unpleasant experiences on the island that verified the verdict.
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This witness is true The apostle confirms what the poet had said; he knew it to be fact from his own experience, and…
False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose them promptly, so that, their folly being exposed, they may not proceed further. They …
13th Century
Catholic
Having described the character of the Cretan people, the Apostle now prescribes the remedy. He presents this in two parts:
