Titus 2:12

12. Teaching us That is, educating us to the holy model which Paul has been describing, (1-10,) and which he sums up in the closing part of this verse.

That In order that. The next words do not contain the matter that is taught, but the purpose or end for which the teaching is given, namely, our holy living. Soberly, in duty to ourselves; righteously, or justly, toward others; godly, or devoutly, toward God.

This present world Time-period. The terms worldly and world here are radically different words, the former of the two implying κοσμος , ( cosmos,) which designates the physical world or world-frame, and the latter, αιων , ( aeon,) which designates the moral system, or time-world. See notes on Matthew 25:46; Rom 12:2 ; 1 Corinthians 10:11; Galatians 1:4-5; Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 3:21. We must deny worldly lusts, which belong to and spring from the frame of this world, during the present time- world, in view of the future time- world, and of the endless range of future aeons or time - worlds. And the looking of the next verse points to that glorious advent which closes the present, and opens the next time - world.