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Commentary on Titus

Commentarius in epistolam ad Titum

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Only the comment on Titus 1:6 ("the husband of one wife") is published.

  1. 1.6Theodore refers his readers to his fuller treatment of "husband of one wife" in the commentary on 1 Timothy, and explains that a presbyter's care for his children shows his fitness to care for the church.

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Author
Theodore of Mopsuestia
Attribution
authentic · Transmitted in Latin under the name of Ambrose; identified as Theodore's by J. B. Pitra and H. B. Swete from the Greek fragments.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Bishop of Mopsuestia in communion with the church until his death (428); condemned only long after, at Constantinople in 553.
Date
392–428 (approximate) · Written while Theodore was bishop of Mopsuestia; the exact date is not known.
Written at
Mopsuestia, Cilicia (probable)
Language
Latin
Genre
commentary
Recension
Ancient Latin translation of the lost Greek commentary (transmitted under the name of Ambrose). Swete also prints Greek catena fragments of the original beside the Latin; they are not reproduced here.
Reference system
chapter.verse of the lemma.
SBL abbreviation
Comm. Tit.Not yet checked
Text from
H. B. Swete, ed., Theodori episcopi Mopsuesteni in epistolas B. Pauli commentarii: The Latin Version with the Greek Fragments, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1882) (Public domain (printed 1882))