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John Gill's Exposition on Titus 3:12
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, etc.] These were both of them ministers of the Gospel; there is no mention of Artemas anywhere else; some say he was one of the seventy disciples, and that he was afterwards bishop of Lystra; but these are uncertain things; (see Gill on “<421001>Luke 10:1”); the name is a contraction of Artemidorus. Tychicus is often spoken of; and a very great character is given of him by the apostle, in (<490621>Ephesians 6:21), be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis; which was a city, not in Epirus, but in Thrace, situated by the river Nessus, and had its name from a victory obtained there: hither the apostle would have Titus come to him, after one or other of the above ministers were come to Crete; for as the apostle had the care of all the churches upon him, he would not remove a minister from one place to another, without making a provision in their room: his reasons for having Titus come to him, might be either to know the state of the churches in Crete; or because he stood in need of his assistance; or to send him elsewhere: for I have determined there to winter; that is, to continue there all the winter; not without labour, but to preach the Gospel, and administer the ordinances to the saints there: and whereas he says “there”; this shows that this epistle was not written from thence, as the subscription asserts; for then he would have said “here”, and not “there”.
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