Verse 11
11. For Over these precepts of severe Christian morality for the various classes mentioned, St. Paul now (Titus 2:11-14) throws a sudden warming and glowing flash of illumination drawn from the glorious motives with which the advent of the Gospel inspires the Christian soul. A literal and truer rendering is, For hath appeared the grace of God, saving (or salvatory) for all men, teaching us; for the purpose that, denying, etc., we should live, etc.
Hath appeared Same Greek root, επιφανεια , epiphany, as is used in 2 Thessalonians 2:8 to describe the resplendence of Christ’s own person at the second advent; here it is the resplendent coming of his grace at the first advent. To all men depends not upon appeared, but salvation.
All men Whether servants (Titus 2:9-10) or lords. The grace is in its nature saving to all men.
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