Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
DIRECTIONS TO TITUS: HOW TO EXHORT VARIOUS CLASSES OF BELIEVERS: THE GRACE OF GOD IN CHRIST OUR GRAND INCENTIVE TO LIVE GODLY. (Titus 2:1-15)
But . . . thou--in contrast to the reprobate seducers stigmatized in Titus 1:11, Titus 1:15-16. "He deals more in exhortations, because those intent on useless questions needed chiefly to be recalled to the study of a holy, moral life; for nothing so effectually allays men's wandering curiosity, as the being brought to recognize those duties in which they ought to exercise themselves" [CALVIN].
speak--without restraint: contrast Titus 1:11, "mouths . . . stopped."
doctrine--"instruction" or "teaching."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Timothy 1:15
1 Timothy 4:6
Titus 2:1
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