ISB ~ Titus 1 v4

Titus:A Gentile believer (Gal 2:3) and a devoted member of Paul’s missionary team (2 Cor 8:23). He is never mentioned by name in the Book of Acts. According to the Pastoral Epistles, Titus was in Dalmatia near the end of Paul’s life (2 Tim 4:10), and, according to tradition, he eventually returned to Crete to minister to the churches on the island until his death.

my true child:The spiritual sonship of Titus points to the spiritual fatherhood of Paul. It may mean that Paul converted Titus to the Christian faith, as he had the Corinthians (1 Cor 4:1415), or that Paul ordained Titus to the pastoral ministry, as he had done with Timothy (1 Tim 4:14; 2 Tim 1:6). In Scripture, spiritual fatherhood is connected with the priestly ministry (Judg 17:10) as it passed from fathers to sons under the Old Covenant (Ex 40:12-15) (CCC 1541). See note on 1 Cor 4:15.