“Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.”
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled — the single virtue emphasized for younger males is sophrosyne (self-control), the mastery of appetite and passion that enables all other virtues. The brevity suggests the primary danger for youths is sexual excess and insubordination, requiring singular focus on restraint. The model forms the foundation for future leadership, as verse 8 implies.
Church Fathers on Titus 2:6
See how he everywhere recommends the observance of decorum. For he has committed to women the greater part in the instruction of women, having appointed the elder to teach the younger. But the whole instruction of men he assigns to Titus himself. For nothing is so difficult for that age as to overcome unlawful pleasures. For neither the love of wealth, nor the desire of glory, or any other thing so much solicits the young, as fleshly lust. Therefore passing over other things,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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