“Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;”
Whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior — the Spirit's outpouring (ekcheō — to pour out abundantly) echoes Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17, establishing continuity with Jewish apocalyptic expectation now fulfilled in Christ. The richly (plusiōs) emphasizes abundance; the Spirit comes not scarcely but lavishly. This marks the most explicitly Trinitarian soteriological statement in the Pastorals: Father's goodness, Spirit's renewal, Christ's mediation form the divine rescue.
Church Fathers on Titus 3:6
What means, “according to the hope”? That, as we have hoped, so we shall enjoy eternal life, or because you are even already heirs. Because he had been speaking of things future and not of the present, therefore he adds, that it is worthy of credit. These things are true, he says, and this is manifest from what has gone before. For He who has delivered us from such a state of iniquity, and from so many evils, will assuredly impart to us the good things to come, if we abide…
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