Titus 1:4

To Titus, mine own son after the common faith,.... Not in a natural, but in a spiritual sense; the apostle being the instrument of his conversion, as he was of the conversion of Onesimus, and of many…

To Titus - See the Introduction, Section 1. Mine own son - Notes, 1Ti 1:2. After the common faith - The faith of all Christians; - equivalent to saying “my son in the gospel.” That is, Paul had been…

To Titus, mine own son - Him whom I have been the instrument of converting to the Christian faith; and in whom, in this respect, I have the same right as any man can have in his own begotten son. See…

Here is the preface to the epistle, showing,

I. The writer. Paul, a Gentile name taken by the apostle of the Gentiles, Act 13:9, Act 13:46, Act 13:47. Ministers will accommodate even smaller matters,…

to Titus, mine own son With R.V. render my true child, as in 1Ti 1:2, where the force of the phrase is drawn out. On the connexion of Titus with St Paul see Introduction, p. 67 sqq.

after the common…