Titus 2:14

14. The judge is a saviour, for he who sits upon the throne once hung upon the cross.

Gave himself Note, John 10:17-18.

For us In behalf of us.

That he might The moralizing and sanctifying effect of Christ’s death is here alone specified, because it is the moral model of 1-10 that St. Paul is here illustrating. This is the manward effect of the atonement, but not its whole effect.

Redeem us Ransom. The Greek verb is the same root as lutron, used by Christ himself in Matthew 20:28, and antilutron, used by St. Paul in 1 Timothy 2:6, on which passages see our notes.

A peculiar people Wholly unlike the people of Titus 1:10-16; especially unlike the great mass of the Cretans characterized in Titus 1:12; and inferentially unlike the mass of an unregenerate world, and peculiar in being exceptionally, not unto every good work reprobate, (Titus 1:16) but zealous of good works. These contrasted words conclude the contrasted picture of each people. The word peculiar is derived from the Latin peculium, signifying a property or possession reserved as specially one’s own; sometimes the reserve property a slave was allowed to have as his. Similar is the meaning of the Greek word here, and it emphatically designates this people as peculiarly his own.