Titus 3:3

3. For This meekness in the midst of a violent community would be a very hard task but for the high motives the Gospel presents to encourage it. We were once as bad as our fellow Jews and Cretans, and have been saved only by availing ourselves of God’s pure mercy through Christ. St. Paul here, as often elsewhere, includes himself with his readers in depreciatory passages. The vices here detailed are very much a repetition of the ideal of Titus 3:2.

Foolish Galatians 3:1; a defect of the higher or moral mind.

Hateful Deserving to be hated, while hating others. Upon this dark picture (as in Titus 2:11-14, where see notes) St. Paul now lets down (Titus 3:4-7) a grand illumination, brought from the advent of the gospel of mercy.