to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
CHAPTER 2 Titus 2:1-5 1. But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 1. Tu autem loquere quae decet sanam doctrinam 2. That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 2. senes ut sobrii sint pudici prudentes sani fide dilectione patientia 3.
Commenting on Titus 2:1-15
Here is the third thing in the matter of the epistle. In the chapter foregoing, the apostle had directed Titus about matters of government, and to set in order the things that were wanting in the churches. Now here he exhorts him, I. Generally, to a faithful discharge of his own office.
Commenting on Titus 2:1-10
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. Temperate, chaste, modest, moderate, wise, and prudent in all things: this is said to Titus, as being his province to instruct and exhort the young men; as it were proper and convenient for aged women to teach the young women how they should behave and conduct themselves. Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.