Titus 3:1

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers,.... Not angels, good or bad, which are sometimes so called, but men in high places; the higher powers ordained of God, as the apostle…

Put them in mind to be subject ... - See the duty here enjoined, explained in the notes at Rom 13:1, following. Principalities and powers - See these words explained in the notes at Rom 8:38. The word…

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities, etc. - By principalities, αρχαις, we are to understand the Roman emperors, or the supreme civil powers in any place.

By powers, εξουσιαις, we are to…

Here is the fourth thing in the matter of the epistle. The apostle had directed Titus in reference to the particular and special duties of several sorts of persons; now he bids him exhort to what…

The duty of living in peace from a sense of God's love and through the Spirit's power

1. Put them in mind -Them" must be -the Cretan Christians" generally: St Paul is gathering all up in his mind for…