Commentary on Titus

Jerome (342–420)

Commentaries on the Epistle to Titus by Saint Jerome of Stridon, Priest

Latin Text from public domain Migne Editors, Patrologiae Cursus Completus.

Translated into English using ChatGPT.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

1:1

1:2-4

1:5

1:6

1:7

1:8-9

1:10-11

1:12-14

1:15

1:16

Chapter 2

2:1

2:2

2:3-5

2:6-8

2:9-10

2:12-14

2:15

Chapter 3

3:1-2

3:3-7

3:8

3:9

3:10-11

3:12

3:13

3:14

3:15

Prologue

Although they are not worthy of faith, who annulled the first faith, I am speaking of Marcion and Basilides, and all heretics who tear apart the old Testament: we would still tolerate them to some extent, if at least they would contain their hands in the new Testament: and not dare to violate (as they boast) Christ, the Son of the good God, or the evangelist, or the apostles. Now, however, since they have scattered his gospel and the apostles’ epistles, and have not made themselves the apostles of Christ, but their own, I wonder how they dare to claim the name of Christians for themselves. For, to pass over the other Epistles, from which they have erased whatever seems to conflict with their own doctrine, they believed that certain undivided ones should be rejected: namely, both to Timothy, to the Hebrews, and to Titus, which we…

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