Bible Commentaries
The People's Bible by Joseph Parker
Titus 2
Chapter2
1Directions given unto Titus both for his doctrine and life9 Of the duty of servants, and in general of all Christians.
1. But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
2. That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate [discreet, or self-restrained], sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
3. The angel women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers [not slanderers], not given to much wine [this warning was probably called for owing to the evil habits and customs of the Cretans], teachers of good things [or, "what is good"];
4. That they may teach the young women to be sober [better rendered, simply, "that they may teach (or, school) the young women" omitting the words "to be sober"] to love their husbands, to love their, children.
5. To be discreet, chaste [not only in Galatians 1:4; Ephesians 5:25], that he might redeem us from all iniquity [that he for us might pay a ransom, the ransom being his precious blood], and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
15. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
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