B

Servant and apostle.

C

According to the faith of God's elect.

D

According to godliness.

E

Promise, by God Who cannot lie.

F

Before age times.

F

In due times.

E

Preaching, His word manifest.

D

Commandment according to.

A

Titus Name.

B

Mine own Son.

C

According to the common faith.

The facility with which the writer of English can use synonyms and so

avoid repetition or tautology is one of the charms of this flexible language

of ours, but like most advantages it has disadvantages too, and one of them

is that in a translation of the original Greek Scriptures like the A.V., the

very diversity of the English tongue may veil to the eyes of the uninitiated

the fact and the impression that such fact leaves, of the repetition of the

same Greek word in the original.  The Greek preposition kata is translated in

two different ways in this brief introduction, thus:

to the faith of God's elect'.

`The truth

which is after godliness'.

to the commandment'.

`After the

common faith'.

This word kata is introduced, in the first three occasions, to

intensify the twofold office of Paul, namely that of `servant' and `apostle',

the fourth being reserved for application to Titus himself.  Seven Greek

words are employed in the New Testament for `servant', each with its own

distinct shade of meaning, and combining to give an all -round picture of the

true Scriptural servant.

Diakoneo.  `In its narrowest sense, to wait at table' (Dr. E. W.

Christ Himself was such a `minister' (Matt. 20:28); The `deacons' were

originally appointed `to serve tables' (Acts 6:2).  Timothy himself is

called `a minister of God'.

Doulos.  This word is derived from douleuo `to enslave or to be

in bondage'.  It means `a bondslave' hence it is used in Romans 6:6,

Galatians 4:8,9,25.  In Titus itself the verb is used in chapter 3

`serving divers lusts' (Titus 3:3), i.e.  in bondage to them.

Therapon.  This word is derived from therapuo, translated

`healing' and is only found in the New Testament once, namely of Moses,

in Hebrews 3:5.  From this word come the English medical terms

`therapeutics' and `therapy'.

Oiketes.  This word refers especially to a servant in the `house'

oikos, as can be seen in Acts 10:7.

Pais.  This word means a child, often a boy, and so like the

French word gar‡on is put for a servant or a waiter.

Huperetes.  This word signifies service on the lowest rung of the

ladder, it means an under -rower, one who was often chained to a bench

and brutally treated.  It is used by Paul of himself in 1 Corinthians

4:1.  The word took on a sense of public duty and is often translated

by the word officer.