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Titus 2:1. But speak what is in accordance with sound doctrine. Even if they were unbelievers and dishonest people, you still do your job: do not be silent, even if they do not accept the teaching. Titus 2:2. so that the elders are vigilant, Since the disadvantage of old age is laziness, slowness and inactivity, therefore he says to “be vigilant,” that is, to be awake and ready for everything that is due. Here he calls chaste those who are sensible and have a sound state of mind. For even among the elders there are people who are frantic, raging and insane - some from wine, others from cowardice. sound in faith, in love, in patience; The commandment of “patience” is especially appropriate for elders, due to their hot temper and irritability. Titus 2:3. so that the old women also dress decently for saints, He talks about old women who, both in appearance and in clothing, should seem decent. Some, however, think that here we are talking about deaconesses, from whom the apostle demands that they, by their very attire, appear decent, that is, in keeping with their sacred service. were not slanderers, were not enslaved to drunkenness, Since a person becomes cold in old age, a disposition to wine appears, and then, not being able to resist, as weak, he is overcome not by moderate, but by drinking heavily, and hence the tendency to slander. How does he say in another place: “But I do not allow a woman to teach” (1 Tim. 2:12)? There he talks about public teaching in the church, which wives are not allowed to do, and here about teaching at home, and only for younger wives. What does the apostle say, listen further. Titus 2:4. to admonish young people to love their husbands, Not only their daughters, but generally all young ones. Let each elder “admonish” the younger one, and first of all, the most important household good - “to love your husband.” When this is present, and the rest will follow, order in the house and abundance in property; when this is not there, then even if everything was there, everything will flow away. Whoever loves the root, that is, the father, will love the fruits, that is, the “children” even more. Titus 2:5. to be chaste, pure, take care of the home, kind, 2 A wife who loves her husband will be both chaste and immaculate, that is, pure in body and mind, both from mixing with outsiders and from lustful desires; and will also be a good ruler of the house, that is, a mistress. Loving her husband, she also takes care of “the house,” not being busy with decorations, or luxury, or untimely expenses. And who else will please, since her beloved has liked her? Look how Paul, who previously distracted from worldly worries, now makes great efforts about household affairs, because when these affairs are in good condition, spiritual ones will also be good. Let not the word of God be reviled. Do you see that he is primarily concerned with preaching and not with worldly affairs? If a believing wife living with an unbelieving husband is not virtuous, then the blasphemy is transferred to the faith. Titus 2:6. Also exhort the young men to be chaste. He appointed the elders as teachers for the younger ones, women for the women; for the “young men” - Titus himself, a husband for husbands: he maintains decency everywhere. Why should we instruct and admonish them? “Be chaste,” because at a young age, what causes the most harm is the fire of shameful pleasures, which one must extinguish and try to “be chaste.” Titus 2:7. In everything, show yourself as an example of good deeds, Let the older women teach the younger ones, and you yourself teach the young men. However, let your bright life be a general school and a model of virtue, like some kind of initial image, placed in full view of everyone who wants to learn something good from it. This expression depends on the general: show. So that what you teach is not, he says, vicious and false, but sound and has the correct meaning. So that the teaching should not have anything youthful and confusing to the foolish, but that everything should be pious and worthy of God. Titus 2:8. a word that is sound and blameless. That is, Orthodox, not containing anything reproachful. so that the enemy will be put to shame, not having anything bad to say about us. He calls either the devil or anyone who serves him nasty. Titus 2:9. Exhort slaves to obey their masters, to please them in everything, Therefore, he is worthy of condemnation who separates wives from husbands under the pretext of abstinence, and who separates servants from masters under the pretext of piety. For it gives many reasons for reproach to everyone and opens everyone’s mouth against the faith. Titus 2:10. not to steal, but to show all good fidelity, Do you see what is required of slaves? What calms the gentlemen most of all is precisely so that “they do not argue, do not steal, but are faithful.” For worldly people this is most desirable. so that in everything they would be an adornment to the teaching of our Savior, God. If slaves are like that, they serve for the glory of Christianity. For when a pagan sees his slave, so brought up by Christianity, will he not be surprised at a teaching that had such power that it improved such a soul? And how daring and stubborn this slave race is always, but because, neglected by their masters, they are poorly brought up and are not guided by instructions and treatment of honest people. Therefore, Paul rightly said in another place: “serving as the Lord, and not men” (Eph. 6:7). Although you serve your master, honor relates to God, because disposition towards the master begins in that fear. Titus 2:11. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, Since the apostle demanded many great things from the slaves - I mean precisely that they should decorate the teachings of the Lord with their virtuous lives - he now shows why he rightly demands such high qualities from them. For grace also appeared to them, although they were slaves. “For all,” he says, “people.” And the Lord granted them the cleansing of many sins, and they must live the rest of the time to the glory of their Benefactor. Titus 2:12. teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, And here he shames them. Having, he says, God as your teacher, shouldn’t you live worthy of Him? This grace, he says, extends not only to the remission of past sins, but also provides us for the future. He teaches us to live chastely the rest of the time, since we have previously completely renounced ungodliness and worldly lusts. By the expression “having rejected” he means complete disgust, arising from the mood of the whole soul. “Imagination” calls idolatry and perverted dogmas. “Worldly lusts” are greed, luxury and other vices that do not lead to heaven, but are useful in this world and cease with it. Therefore, Christ came so that we would renounce ungodly teachings and sinful lives, hating both with equal force. lived chastely, righteously and piously “Chaste” means not only abstinence from fornication, but also from other passions. And if you are covetous, then you are “not chaste”; on the contrary, you are even more incontinent, since this passion is not natural. In general, one who is overcome by all passions is not chaste. This “age” represents struggle, and the next one represents retribution. Titus 2:13. awaiting the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, This is the reward, the Second Coming, truly blessed. Well said: "glory". He talks about two phenomena. The first, as stated above, had grace and forgiveness, which was accomplished with mercy and simplicity. The second is reward, which will be revealed with glory, as the Gospel says: “When the Son of Man comes in His glory” (Matthew 25:31). Where are those who humiliate the Son and do not want to call Him God? Let them hear that He is both God and great. He is great, it is said, like God, not in comparison with something small, but unconditionally, because he is great in Himself, by nature. If He saved us when we were enemies, what will He not give when He finds us pleasing to Him? Titus 2:14. Who gave Himself for us, that He might deliver us from all iniquity And this is a sign of His power that He gave Himself: and not so as to deliver from one iniquity, but not from another; but “from all iniquity.” Let us honor our deliverance. and purify for Yourself a special people, Purify by the font of divine baptism and the fulfillment of His divine and purifying commandments. “Special” (περιούσιος), that is, one’s own, is an expression metaphorically taken from the servants who revolve around the property and property of their master, just as they call a person chosen, singled out, having nothing in common with other people. zealous for good deeds. That is, a people passionately striving for virtue and showing “zeal for all good deeds” and ardent imitation. Deliverance is His work alone, but to be zealous in deeds is also ours. Titus 2:15. Say this, exhort and reprove with all authority, First, “speak and exhort,” that is, teach with gentler speech; and then “reprove,” and not simply, but “with all authority,” that is, urgently and imperiously. Since they were rude, he proposes severity against them. There are vices that do not need severity, but only exhortation and persuasion, such as, for example, completely despising money. But there are also those that need severity, such as adultery, theft, predation, and magic. so that no one neglects you. That is: let no one despise you, who reprove you in a timely and severe manner; for whoever reproaches strictly, but not in a timely manner, is the more despised. The following words: “submissive to their husbands” in the text of the blj. Theophylact are omitted. The next word - “intactness” - is omitted from the bl. Theophylact. You might be interested in: