Afterwards the Apostle, on a journey to Nicopolis, a city of Macedonia, wrote this Epistle to Titus, in which he directs him to ordain bishops and priests for the different cities, shewing him the principal qualities necessary for a bishop. He also gives him particular advice for his own conduct to his flock, exhorting him to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with lenity. It was written about thirty-three years after our Lord's Ascension. What kind of men he is to ordain priests.
Some men are to be sharply rebuked.
To Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith, grace and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Saviour. If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers. Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. This testimony is true.