Verse 3
3. But Contrastive between the ideal and the manifested promise.
In due times In its own times; the times divinely held to be suitable for such manifestation.
His word We might have expected it as referring to promise, as manifested; but St. Paul uses the term his word to identify the promise with the gospel word.
Preaching Literally, proclamation.
Committed unto me Note 1 Timothy 1:12-17.
According to The third κατα in the paragraph. Paul’s apostleship accords with “elect faith;” which accords with “godliness;” the preaching of which accords with the divine order. And the passage ends, as it began, at Paul’s personality, showing that the whole is the import of the word apostle, so that at this point he makes transition to Titus.
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