Titus 3:7

7. That In order that. Commentators differ as to whether it depends upon shed or upon saved. By the former (Huther, Wiesinger, and Alford) the Holy Spirit is shed upon us in order to our heirship, etc. But that is tracing the grand result described in this verse to too special a point in the process described in Titus 3:4-6. Make that depend upon saved, and Titus 3:7 describes the divine outcome of the whole process. We, then, are saved, by means described in Titus 3:5-6, in order that we might be heirs of hope and glory.

Being justified As Alford notes, this may be rendered having been justified, and so be referred back to our first pardon. Or, better, we may identify it with the “justifieth” of Romans 8:33, by which God continuously exonerates the faithful believer from charges of guilt and condemnation.

Heirs What kind of heirs? Heirs (as divinely defined in the following clause) according to the hope not of a mere temporal patrimony, but of eternal life.