Titus 2:3 - Exposition

That for the, A.V be reverent in demeanor for that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, A.V.; slanderers for false accusers, A.V.; nor for not, A.V.; enslaved for given, A.V.; that which is good for good things, A.V. Reverent ( ἱεροπρεπεῖς ); only here in the New Testament, twice in 4 Maccabees; it is not uncommon in classical Greek. The word means "becoming a holy person, place, or matter;" otherwise expressed in 1 Timothy 2:10 , "which becometh women professing godliness;" and Ephesians 5:3 , "as becometh saints." In demeanor ( ἐν καταστήματι ; Of much wider meaning than καταστολή in 1 Timothy 2:7 ); here only in the New Testament, once in 3Ma 5:45, "a state" or "condition," spoken of elephants; and so in classical Greek, applied to a man, to health, to the air, or the body politic. Here mien, demeanor, or deportment, including, as St. Jerome expounds it, the movements of the body, the expression of the countenance, what is said, and what is left unsaid. The whole habit and composition or structure of mind and body is to be ἱερόπρεπες , what becomes a holy woman. Slanderers ( διαβόλους ); as 1 Timothy 3:1-16 . (q.v.). Nor enslaved to much wine . Observe the fitness of the phrase "enslaved." The drunkard is thoroughly the slave of his vicious appetite (cutup. Titus Titus 3:3 ; Romans 6:16 ; 2 Peter 2:19 ). Teachers of that which is good ( καλοδιδασκάλους ); only here in the New Testament, not found in the LXX ., or in classical Greek; teachers, by their holy demeanor as well as by their words. For as Ignatius (quoted by Ellicott) says of the Bishop of the Trallians, "His very demeanor ( αὐτὸ τὸ κατάστημα ) was a great lesson ( μοθητεία )."