Homilies on Titus

Homiliae in epistulam ad Titum

1.4Chrysostom explains Paul's charge to Titus to appoint bishops in every Cretan city, reading “the husband of one wife” as both honouring marriage against heretics and barring the twice married from office.
1.5Chrysostom explains the qualities of a bishop in Titus 1:7–11: gentleness without insult, self-mastery, and above all ability to teach and to silence false teachers.
1.6Chrysostom warns against the passion for glory, urging his hearers to look to God's verdict rather than human praise and to welcome dishonour as a protection.
1.7Chrysostom urges his hearers to reject human glory as empty, like a stage mask, and to seek only the praise of God.

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Author: John Chrysostom
Attribution: authentic · Accepted as Chrysostom's.
Standing: Honoured by the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant.
Date: ca. 392-397 (disputed) · Antioch (before 397) and Constantinople (after 398) have both been argued.
Written at: Antioch, Syria (disputed)
Language: Greek
Genre: homily
Reference system: homily.section
SBL abbreviation: Hom. Tit.Not yet checked
Clavis: CPG 4438 (unverified)
Text from: J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca 62 (Paris) (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR transcription (archive.org) of public-domain page images)
Critical editions: J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca 61 (Paris, 1862) (cited, not reproduced)