TITUS 2:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;”
Awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing (epiphaneia) of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ — the eschatological hope centers on epiphaneia (visible manifestation), parallel to the epephanē of grace in verse 11, creating theological symmetry: grace appeared; we await its culmination. The title megas theos kai sōtēr Iēsous Christos (great God and Savior Jesus Christ) invokes the Granville Sharp rule, asserting Christ's deity through grammatical construction (single article + megas + theoi + kai + sōtēr). The blessed hope (makaria elpis) combines joy and confident expectation.
Church Fathers on Titus 2:13
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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