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Tite 1:4

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4 Tite, mon enfant légitime en notre commune foi: que la grâce et la paix te soient données de la part de Dieu le Père et de Jésus-Christ notre Sauveur!

Tite 1:4 Meaning and Commentary

Titus 1:4

To Titus, mine own son after the common faith
Not in a natural, but in a spiritual sense; the apostle being the instrument of his conversion, as he was of the conversion of Onesimus, and of many of the Corinthians, and therefore is said to beget them, ( Philemon 1:10 ) ( 1 Corinthians 4:15 ) and so was their spiritual father, and they his children: Titus was, in this sense, his "own son", or a true son, a legitimate one; a true convert; one really born again; a sincere believer, an Israelite indeed: and this he was "after the common faith"; either the doctrine of faith, which is but one, and is common to all the saints; or the grace of faith, which though different in degrees, yet is alike precious faith in all; the same for nature, kind, object, operation, and effects: and this phrase is used to show in what sense Titus was son to the apostle; as he was a believer, and no otherwise.

Grace, mercy, and peace
which is the apostle's usual salutation; see ( 1 Timothy 1:2 ) . The word "mercy" is left out in the Claromontane copy, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions.

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Tite 1:4 In-Context

2 lesquelles reposent sur l'espérance de la vie éternelle, promise dès les plus anciens temps par le Dieu qui ne ment point,
3 et qui a manifesté sa parole en son temps par la prédication qui m'a été confiée d'après l'ordre de Dieu notre Sauveur,
4 Tite, mon enfant légitime en notre commune foi: que la grâce et la paix te soient données de la part de Dieu le Père et de Jésus-Christ notre Sauveur!
5 Je t'ai laissé en Crète, afin que tu mettes en ordre ce qui reste à régler, et que, selon mes instructions, tu établisses des anciens dans chaque ville,
6 s'il s'y trouve quelque homme irréprochable, mari d'une seule femme, ayant des enfants fidèles, qui ne soient ni accusés de débauche ni rebelles.
The Louis Segond 1910 is in the public domain.

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