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Titus, Epistle to: Was probably written about the same time as the first epistle to
Timothy, with which it has many affinities. "Both letters were
addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their respective
churches during his absence. Both letters are principally occupied in
describing the qualifications to be sought for in those whom they
should appoint to offices in the church; and the ingredients of this
description are in both letters nearly the same. Timothy and Titus
are likewise cautioned against the same prevailing corruptions, and in
particular against the same misdirection of their cares and studies.
This affinity obtains not only in the subject of the letters, which
from the similarity of situation in the persons to whom they were
addressed might be expected to be somewhat alike, but extends in a
great variety of instances to the phrases and expressions. The writer
accosts his two friends with the same salutation, and passes on to the
business of his letter by the same transition (comp.)
(1 Timothy 1:2,3)
with
(Ti 1:4,5; 1 Timothy 1:4; Ti 1:13,14; 3:9; 1 Timothy 4:12; Ti 2:7,15)
Paley's Horae Paulinae. The date of its composition may be concluded
from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete
(Ti 1:5) That visit could not be the one referred to in
(Acts 27:7)
when Paul was on his voyage to Rome as a prisoner, and where he
continued a prisoner for two years. We may warrantably suppose that
after his release Paul sailed from Rome into Asia and took Crete by
the way, and that there he left Titus "to set in order the things that
were wanting." Thence he went to Ephesus, where he left Timothy, and
from Ephesus to Macedonia, where he wrote First Timothy, and thence to
Nicopolis in Epirus, from which place he wrote to Titus, about A.D. 66
or 67 In the subscription to the epistle it is said to have been
written from "Nicopolis of Macedonia," but no such place is known. The
subscriptions to the epistles are of no authority, as they are not
authentic.
