Titus 2:14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Titus 2:11-14

Here we have the grounds or considerations upon which all the foregoing directions are urged, taken from the nature and design of the gospel, and the end of Christ's death. I. From the nature and design of the gospel. Let young and old, men and women, masters and servants, and Titus himself, let all sorts do their respective duties, for this is the very aim and business of Christianity, to instruct, and help, and form persons, under all distinctions and relations, to a right frame and conduct.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 2:11-14

2:11-14 For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared, schooling us to renounce godlessness and worldly desires for forbidden things, and to live in this world prudently, justly and reverently, because we expectantly await the realization of our blessed hope--I mean the glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from the power of all lawlessness, and to purify us as a special people for himself, a people eager for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Titus 2:14

Who gave himself for us ,.... Not another, or another's, but himself; not merely his own things, but his own self; not the world, and the riches of it, not gold and silver, and such like corruptible things, as the price of redemption; not the cattle on a thousand hills for sacrifice; not men nor angels, but himself; all that belong to him, all that is near and dear, his name, fame, credit, and reputation; his time, strength, and service: all the comforts of life, and life itself; his whole... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Titus 2:14

Who gave himself for us - Who gave his own life as a ransom price to redeem ours. This is evidently what is meant, as the words λυτρωσηται and λαον περιουσιον imply. The verb λυτροω signifies to redeem or ransom by paying a price, as I have often had occasion to observe; and περιουσιος signifies such a peculiar property as a man has in what he has purchased with his own money. Jesus gave his life for the world, and thus has purchased men unto himself; and, having purchased the slaves... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Titus 2:14

Verse 14 14Who gave himself for us. This is another argument of exhortation, drawn from the design or effect of the death of Christ, who offered himself for us, that he might redeem us from the bondage of sin, and purchase us to himself as his heritage. His grace, therefore, necessarily brings along with it “newness of life,” (Romans 6:4,) because they who still are the slaves of sin make void the blessing of redemption; but now we are released from the bondage of sin, in order that we may... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 2:1-15

Practical godliness the end of spiritual doctrine. The teaching of St. Paul soars very high in respect of the hidden things of God. To none of the apostles were given more abundant revelations of heavenly mysteries. Caught up into the third heaven, hearing unspeakable words, saturated with gifts of the Holy Ghost, he was able to lead men's souls into depths and heights of unseen things as no other teacher was. His eloquent tongue, pouring forth the riches of knowledge of an enlightened... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 2:11-15

The soul-culture of the world. "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men," etc. "Taking occasion from what he had just said of the connection between the conduct of Christians and the doctrine they professed to have received, and the connection of both with the glory of God, the apostle proceeds in these verses to ground the whole of his exhortations respecting the behavior of Christians in the essentially moral nature and design of the grace of God, as now... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 2:14

A people for his own possession for a peculiar people, A.V. Who gave himself for us. The resemblance in thought and diction to 1 Timothy 2:3-6 has been already pointed out. "Who gave himself" ( ὃς ἔδωκεν ἑαυτόν ) is there expressed by ὁ δοὺς ἑαυτόν , and "that he might redeem us" ( ἵνα λυτρώσηται ἡμᾶς ) by ἀντίλυτρον ὑπὲρ πάντων . (For the great truths contained in the words "who gave himself," comp. John 10:11 , John 10:17 , John 10:18 ; ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 2:14

The purport and extent of Christ's Saviorship. Mark— I. THE PERSON WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US . "Our great God and Savior Jesus Christ." Here the atonement is connected with the Deity of the Savior, as if to showy that the true Godhead of the Son gave infinite value to his sufferings. II. THE ATONING WORK . "Who gave himself for us." Two things are here implied. 1. Priestly action. For he "gave himself" freely, the language being borrowed from Levitical... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 2:14

The giving of the self. This is the most beautiful of the sentences in this Epistle. Christ came not merely to teach, or to reveal the fatherhood of God, but to give himself. I. HE DID THIS IN HIS LIFE . All his exquisite sensibilities were bruised in a world of selfishness and sin. The sorrows and griefs of men hurt him. He did not merely give his thoughts, or give his time, or give his infinite help. He "gave himself." II. HE DID THIS IS HIS DEATH . As... read more

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