TITUS 1:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.”
One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, 'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons' — Paul quotes Epimenides of Crete (sixth-century BCE), turning the Cretans' own testimony against the false teachers among them. The characterization (liars, beasts, gluttons) encapsulates moral failure: dishonesty in speech, brutishness in nature, excess in appetite. By citing a native witness, Paul validates the charge while maintaining rhetorical distance, a technique common in ancient polemic.
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