ACC ~ Titus 1 v6d

RULING HIS OWN HOUSE WELL. JEROME: “One that rules well his own house.” That is, not by increasing riches, not by providing regal banquets, not by having a pile of finely wrought plates, not by slowly steaming pheasants so that the heat may reach the bones without melting the flesh upon them. No, he does this rather by first requiring of his own household the conduct which he has to inculcate in others. LETTERS 69.9.

ARE THERE EXCEPTIONS? THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: Paul does not measure the virtue of fathers by the depravity of their children, nor did the misbehavior of his sons make Samuel unworthy of the priesthood; Paul wishes only to show the likely intentions of the father from what has been created in the sons. COMMENTARY ON TITUS.

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