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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But avoid foolish questions,.... Such as were started in the schools of the Jews; see 2 Timothy 2:23 and genealogies; of their elders, Rabbins, and doctors, by whom their traditions are handed down from one to another, in fixing which they greatly laboured; see 1 Timothy 1:4 and contentions and strivings about the law; the rites and ceremonies of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. There are hundreds of questions, which are thought by some people to be very important, but which have no practical bearing whatever, either upon the glory of God, or upon the holiness of man. We are not to go into these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that is an heretic- One who really turns aside from the truth, and sets up something contrary to the Word of God; what is to be done with him? “Burn him,” says the Church of Rome. “Fine him, put him in prison,” say other churches; but the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
A man that is an heretic,.... An heretic, according to the notation of the word, is either one that makes choice of an opinion upon his own judgment, contrary to the generally received sense of the churches of Christ, and prefers it to theirs, and obstinately persists in it; separates from them, forms a party, and sets himself at the head of them,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. When it comes to unbelief of fundamental and vital doctrines, we who are like Titus, set in office over a church, must deal with such deadly evils with a strong hand.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After the first and second admonition reject; Just exclude him from the church, that is all. Leave him his utmost liberty to go where he likes, believe what he likes, and do what he likes; but, at the same time, you as Christian people must disown him, that is all you ought to do, except to pray and labour for his restoration.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Knowing that he that is such is subverted,.... Or overturned and demolished; he is like an edifice, that is not only decaying, and falling, but is entirely everted, and pulled down; so that there is no hopes of a restoration or recovery; he is in a desperate condition, having opposed the person, or office, or sacrifice of Christ; having either...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing he wanting unto them. And let ours also learn to maintain...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus,.... These were both of them ministers of the Gospel; there is no mention of Artemas anywhere else; some say he was one of the seventy disciples, and that he was afterwards bishop of Lystra; but these are uncertain things; [See comments on Lu 10:1]; the name is a contraction of Artemidorus. Tychicus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. Paul had already told Titus to bid the saints in Crete to abound in good works; now he is commanded to take care of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Bring Zenas the lawyer,.... Whether he was brought up to the civil law, either among the Greeks or Romans, is not certain; it may be he was a Jewish lawyer, or scribe, an interpreter of Moses's law among the Jews; for with them a lawyer and a scribe were one and the same, as appears from Matthew 22:35 compared with Mr 12:28 and the Syriac version...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And let ours also learn to maintain good works,.... By which are not only meant honest trades, as some choose to render the words: it is true, that a trade is a work; and an honest lawful employment of life is a good work; and which ought to be maintained, attended to, and followed, and to be learnt, in order to be followed. The Jews say, that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. May that final benediction drop like the dew upon this whole company! “Grace be with you all. Amen.” This exposition consisted of readings from...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All that are with me salute thee,.... All the apostles, fellow labourers, and the ministers of the Gospel that were with him; and all the members of the church where he was, sent their Christian salutation to Titus; he being a person greatly esteemed, and whose praise was in all the churches: greet them that love us in the faith; not merely as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.