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The Greek who was not circumcised Left Behind in Crete

Editor's note

Titus appears in the New Testament thirteen times and never in Acts, which is one of the small puzzles of the text. What the letters show is a man Paul trusted with the two hardest assignments he had: the collection, and Corinth.

He was a Greek, a Gentile by birth, converted through Paul, whom Paul calls his true child according to a common faith. When Paul went up to Jerusalem to lay his gospel before the pillars of the Church, he took Titus with him, and the fact that Titus was not compelled to be circumcised is the point Paul makes when he tells the story in Galatians. Titus was, in person, the test case. The Church's decision that a Gentile need not become a Jew first was made with him standing there.

Afterward he is Paul's man for the situations that have gone wrong. When the correspondence with Corinth reached its worst, it was Titus who was sent, Titus who got the church back, and Titus whose return with good news Paul describes in the second letter with visible relief. He was also given charge of the collection for the poor of Jerusalem, which involved carrying other people's money a very long way, and Paul's language about the arrangements for it is the language of a man who knows the accusation of embezzlement is coming and intends to make it impossible.

Crete

The next chapter opens when you reach the end.

Source: An editorial Life in the Purify voice. Everything firm about Titus comes from the New Testament: Galatians 2, 2 Corinthians 2, 7, 8 and 12, 2 Timothy 4:10, and the Epistle to Titus itself, all of which this app carries in full. The later details of his episcopate and repose follow the Greek Menaion for the twenty fifth of August and the Cretan tradition. St. John Chrysostom's six Homilies on the Epistle to Titus, which are the fullest patristic reading of his ministry, are already in this app in full and are linked from his profile.