Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Titus 1:15

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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all things--external, "are pure" in themselves; the distinction of pure and impure is not in the things, but in the disposition of him who uses them; in opposition to "the commandments of men" (Tit 1:14), which forbade certain things as if impure intrinsically. "To the pure" inwardly, that is, those purified in heart by faith (Act 15:9; Rom 14:20; Ti1 4:3), all outward things are pure; all are open to, their use. Sin alone touches and defiles the soul (Mat 23:26; Luk 11:41). nothing pure--either within or without (Rom 14:23). mind--their mental sense and intelligence. conscience--their moral consciousness of the conformity or discrepancy between their motives and acts on the one hand, and God's law on the other. A conscience and a mind defiled are represented as the source of the errors opposed in the Pastoral Epistles (Ti1 1:19; Ti1 3:9; Ti1 6:5).

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