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**Speak . . . sound doctrine**. Instead of inculcating Jewish fables and speculations impart healthy teaching; teach practical duties.
**That the aged men be sober**. Not given to wine. We must keep in mind that the converts had recently been given to heathen vices.
**Temperate**. Exhibiting self-control.
**Sound in faith**. True believers.
**In patience**. Steadfastly persevering.
**The aged women likewise**. One general rule is given, in effect that they seek holy lives.
**Not false accusers**. Not given to slander, and insinuations of evil, a fault by no means uncommon among certain classes of women.
**Teachers of good things**. Both by example and precept. How beautiful is an aged Christian woman of saintly life!
**That they may teach**. A special mission is to teach the young women. What they were to be taught follows.
**To be discreet**. How often thoughtless indiscretion has caused great pain and trouble!
**Keepers at home**. Those who are continually going must neglect the duties of domestic life. See 1Ti 5:13.
**Young men . . . be sober-minded**. The precept, sober-minded, occurs four times in six verses, and may be accounted for by the volatile character of the Cretans. See Tit 1:12-13.

**Showing thyself a pattern**. While exhorting others.
**Showing uncorruptness**. Sincerity.
**Sound speech**. Speech of a healthy, moral effect.
**He that is of the contrary part**. Opposers, whether heathen, Jews, or false teachers.

**Exhort servants**. Slaves. See notes on Eph 6:5-8. Many of the first converts were servants.
**Not purloining**. Men robbed of liberty and labor have always been under temptation to steal.
**Good fidelity**. Faithfulness in duty which will secure the master's confidence.
**That they may adorn**. The virtues of a Christian servant would commend Christianity to the master. As a matter of fact we know that many masters were converted by their servants.

**Hath appeared to all men**. The divine favor shown forth in the gospel of salvation is for all men, servants as well as masters.
**Teaching us**. We are taught in this system of grace that we must deny ourselves all sinful lusts, and live godly lives.
**Looking for**. The attitude of Christians is that of waiting in expectation of the fulfillment of a glorious hope. Compare 1Co 1:7; Phi 3:20; 1Th 1:9.
**Who gave himself**. The Lord who will appear gave the greatest of all things, himself, for us.
**That he might redeem us**. To deliver us from sin, not only from its power, but its penalty.
**A peculiar people**. Separate, chosen, holy in life. The Jews were, under the old covenant, a peculiar people; now, Christians, are God's Israel.
**Let no man despise thee**. Command respect.

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