“In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,”
Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be criticized — Paul addresses Titus directly, establishing the pastor as living exemplum (typos) of the doctrine proclaimed. Good works must be visible and deliberate; teaching must display semnotes (gravity) and akatagnōstos logos (speech beyond censure). The pastor's character becomes the sermon; hypocrisy invalidates message.
Church Fathers on Titus 2:7
Let the elder women, he says, teach the younger, but do you yourself exhort young men to be soberminded. And let the luster of your life be a common school of instruction, a pattern of virtue to all, publicly exhibited, like some original model, containing in itself all beauties, affording examples whence those who are willing may easily imprint upon themselves any of its excellences.
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