Titus 2:9

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation,.... By which is meant, not the free love and favour of God, which lies in his own heart; for though that is productive of salvation, and is the source and…

Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters - See this explained in the notes at Eph 6:5, following, and 1Ti 6:1-4. And to please them well in all things - That is, so far as they lawfully…

Exhort servants to be obedient - The apostle refers to those who were slaves, and the property of their masters; even these are exhorted to be obedient ιδιοις δεσποταις, to their own despots, though…

Here is the third thing in the matter of the epistle. In the chapter foregoing, the apostle had directed Titus about matters of government, and to set in order the things that were wanting in the…

The standard of holy living for slaves

9. Exhort servants The verb is supplied from Tit 2:6. The phrases and the necessary limits of Christian counsel to slaves are touched on in notes 1Ti 6:1-2 Lewin…