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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Titus</FONT>
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<BR>Completed by J<FONT SIZE=-1>EREMIAH</FONT> S<FONT SIZE=-1>MITH</FONT>.</P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>T I T U S.</B></FONT>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HIS</FONT>
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Epistle of Paul to Titus is much of the same nature with those to
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Timothy; both were converts of Paul, and his companions in labours and
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sufferings; both were in the office of evangelists, whose work was to
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water the churches planted by the apostles, and to set in order the
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things that were wanting in them: they were vice-apostles, as it were,
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<I>working the work of the Lord, as they did,</I> and mostly under
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their direction, though not despotic and arbitrary, but with the
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concurring exercise of their own prudence and judgment,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Co+16:10,12">1 Cor. xvi. 10, 12</A>.
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We read much of this Titus, his titles, character, and active
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usefulness, in many places--he was a Greek,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ga+2:3">Gal. ii. 3</A>.
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Paul called him <I>his son</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Tit+1:4">Tit. i. 4</A>),
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<I>his brother</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Co+2:13">2 Cor. ii. 13</A>),
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<I>his partner and fellow-helper</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Co+8:23">2 Cor. viii. 23</A>),
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<I>one that walked in the same spirit and in the same steps with
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himself.</I> He went up with the apostles to the church at Jerusalem
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ga+2:1">Gal. ii. 1</A>),
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was much conversant at Corinth, for which church he had <I>an earnest
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care,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Co+8:16">2 Cor. viii. 16</A>.
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Paul's second epistle to them, and probably his first also, was sent by
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his hand,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Co+8:16-18,23,9:2-4,12:18">2 Cor. viii. 16-18, 23; ix. 2-4; xii. 18</A>.
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He was with the apostle at Rome, and thence went into Dalmatia
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ti+4:10">2 Tim. iv. 10</A>),
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after which no more occurs of him in the scriptures. So that by them he
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appears not to have been a fixed bishop; if such he were, and in those
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times, the church of Corinth, where he most laboured, had the best
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title to him. In Crete (now called <I>Candia,</I> formerly
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<I>Hecatompolis,</I> from the hundred cities that were in it), a large
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island at the mouth of the Ægean Sea, the gospel had got some
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footing; and here were Paul and Titus in one of their travels,
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cultivating this plantation; but the apostle of the Gentiles, having on
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him the care of all the churches, could not himself tarry long at this
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place. He therefore left Titus some time there, to carry on the work
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which had been begun, wherein, probably, meeting with more difficulty
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than ordinary, Paul wrote this epistle to him; and yet perhaps not so
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much for his own sake as for the people's, that the endeavours of
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Titus, strengthened with apostolic advice and authority, might be more
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significant and effectual among them. He was to see all the cities
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furnished with good pastors, to reject and keep out the unmeet and
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unworthy, to teach sound doctrine, and instruct all sorts in their
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duties, to set forth the free grace of God in man's salvation by
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Christ, and withal to show the necessity of maintaining good works by
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those who have believed in God and hope for eternal life from him.</P>
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