Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
My true child (gnhsiw teknw). See I Timothy 1:2 for this adjective with Timothy. Titus is not mentioned in Acts, possibly because he is Luke's brother. But one can get a clear picture of him by turning to II Corinthians 2:13; II Corinthians 7:6-15; 8:6-24; II Corinthians 12:16-18; Galatians 2:1-3; Titus 1:4 f.; Titus 3:12; II Timothy 4:10. He had succeeded in Corinth where Timothy had failed. Paul had left him in Crete as superintendent of the work there. Now he writes him from Nicopolis (Titus 3:12).
After a common faith (kata koinhn pistin). Here kata does mean standard, not aim, but it is a faith (pistin) common to a Gentile (a Greek) like Titus as well as to a Jew like Paul and so common to all races and classes (Judges 1:3). Koinov does not here have the notion of unclean as in Acts 10:14; Acts 11:8.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Titus 1:4:
John 4:42
Acts 10:14
1 Timothy 1:2
Titus 1:3
Titus 1:4
Jude 1:3
Revelation 7:10
Revelation 21:27
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