Saints Translation

By Vincent Melli

Titus — Greek text and reception

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Titus 2 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Titus [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 2

A life shaped by the appearing of our Savior

Verse 2:1

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But you, speak what is fitting for sound teaching.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: You is emphatic, contrasting Titus with the opponents just described. The language of soundness continues from chapter 1. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 3 on Titus, on 2:1, urges Titus to continue teaching despite resistance. [P3]

Verse 2:2

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Older men are to be sober, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: πρεσβύτας names older men here, distinct from the appointment of πρεσβυτέρους in 1:5. The three areas of soundness are individually retained. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:2, especially commends endurance for older men. [P4]

Verse 2:3

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their conduct, not slanderers or enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: ἱεροπρεπεῖς describes conduct befitting sacred things. Enslaved to much wine retains the perfect passive metaphor; teachers of what is good gives the older women an active teaching role. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:3–4, allows women’s domestic instruction while restricting public presidency: his contextual reconciliation with 1 Timothy 2:12. [P4]

Text: NA28 reads μὴ οἴνῳ (SBLGNT μηδὲ οἴνῳ); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read asyndetically "not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine".[G][P4]

Verse 2:4

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

so that they may train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: σωφρονίζωσι means train or bring to sound judgment. The purpose clause continues the older women’s teaching in 2:3, with love of husbands and children separately named. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:4, understands older women teaching younger women beyond their own daughters. [P4]

Verse 2:5

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, good, subject to their own husbands, so that God’s word may not be reviled.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: The selected reading οἰκουργούς is working at home. The sentence’s own household setting and stated concern about God’s word are retained without adding a modern employment rule. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:5, interprets household conduct as testimony to unbelieving husbands. [P4]

Verse 2:6

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Likewise, encourage the younger men to be self-controlled.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: The recurring σωφρον- language links the age groups. Encourage retains the exhortatory sense of παρακάλει. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:6, emphasizes resistance to youthful sexual desires. [P4]

Verse 2:7

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

In everything, present yourself as a model of good works, showing integrity in teaching, dignity,

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: περὶ πάντα is attached here to exemplary conduct; attachment to the preceding self-control instruction is also possible. SBLGNT reads ἀφθορίαν, integrity, without an added sincerity term after dignity. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:7, presents the teacher’s life as a public model for imitation. [P4]

Verse 2:8

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that the opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: SBLGNT reads περὶ ἡμῶν, about us. P4’s English quotation has of you and also adds sincerity in 2:7; neither feature is imported into this selected-source translation. Sound speech continues the preceding list. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:7–8, identifies the adversary with the devil and his agents: an interpretive identification. [P4]

Verse 2:9

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be pleasing to them, not contradicting them,

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: δοῦλοι and δεσπόται designate slaves and masters in this household instruction. Translating them as employees and employers would replace the social relationship in the text. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:9–10, accepts the slave–master institution and opposes removing slaves from their masters. [P4]

Verse 2:10

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

not pilfering, but showing complete good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: νοσφίζεσθαι concerns secretly keeping something back for oneself. The adornment is figurative: conduct makes the teaching visible as honorable. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Titus, on 2:10, treats slaves’ conduct as testimony to outsiders; his social assumptions remain attributed. [P4]

Verse 2:11

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: σωτήριος describes grace as saving or bringing salvation. The all people phrase remains; a conclusion about each individual’s final outcome is not added. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 5 on Titus, on 2:11–14, distinguishes grace’s first appearing from future judgment. [P5]

Verse 2:12

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

training us so that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we may live self-controlled, just, and godly lives in the present age,

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: Grace remains the subject of παιδεύουσα, training. Denying ungodliness and worldly desires is followed by three adverbs describing life in the present age, rendered as self-controlled, just, and godly lives. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 5 on Titus, on 2:12, extends self-control to greed as well as sexual desire. [P5]

Verse 2:13

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

awaiting the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: The single article before great God and Savior supports applying both titles to Jesus Christ. Appearing of the glory retains the genitive construction; the syntax and the later Christological argument are distinct evidence. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 5 on Titus, on 2:13, applies the title great God to the Son against subordination. [P5]

Verse 2:14

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

who gave Himself for us, so that He might ransom us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, eager for good works.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: λυτρώσηται retains the ransom/redemption image. περιούσιον identifies a people specially His own; eager renders the active force of ζηλωτήν. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 5 on Titus, on 2:14, emphasizes active zeal following divine deliverance. [P5]

Verse 2:15

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Speak these things, encourage, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text: Three commands—speaking, encouraging, and rebuking—are retained. Authority renders ἐπιταγή in this directive context. [G] Reception: Chrysostom, Homily 5 on Titus, on 2:15, distinguishes persuasive exhortation from commanding correction of wrongdoing. [P5]