Titus 1 Footnotes

1:12 The Epimenides citation may seem an unfair regional stereotype; however, Epimenides and Paul were in a far better position to describe ancient Cretan society than are twenty-first-century critics. Cross-cultural experience confirms that certain negative behaviors may be endemic to particular cultures (including one’s own). Epimenides’s characterization was not universally true, but it was true in reference to Paul’s opponents.

1:14 See note on 1Tm 1:4.