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Titus 2:15

Titus 2:15
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

These things speak and exhort - Notes, 1Ti 6:2. And rebuke with all authority - 1Ti 5:1, note, 20, note; 2Ti 4:2 note. The word “authority” here means command - ἐπιταγὴ epitagē; 1Co 7:6, 1Co 7:25;…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

These things speak - That is, teach; for λαλει, speak, has the same meaning here as διδασκε, teach, which, as being synonymous, is actually the reading of the Codex Alexandrinus.

And exhort -…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

The apostle closes the chapter (as he began it) with a summary direction to Titus upon the whole, in which we have the matter and manner of ministers' teaching, and a special instruction to Titus in…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Thesethings speak, and exhort, and rebuke The three verbs rise as a climax, describing the degrees of earnestness and intensity to be put forth according to the occasion; -these things," all from Tit…