TITUS 2:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;”
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age — grace functions pedagogically (paideuousa), discipling believers toward virtue through its very appearance. The rejection of ungodliness (asebeia) and worldly desires (kosmikai epithumiai) involves ascetical discipline, while positive cultivation of sophrosyne (self-control), dikaiosyne (uprightness), and eusebeia (godliness) reshapes character. The present age (en tō nyn aiōni) acknowledges the eschatological tension: training occurs now, awaiting future glory.
Church Fathers on Titus 2:12
Having demanded from servants so great virtue, for it is great virtue to adorn the doctrine of our God and Saviour in all things, and charged them to give no occasion of offense to their masters, even in common matters, he adds the just cause, why servants should be such: “For the grace of God, that brings salvation, has appeared.” Those who have God for their Teacher, may well be such as I have described, seeing their numberless sins have been forgiven to them. For you know…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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