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Titus 3:13

The Pulpit Commentary on Titus 3:13

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Set forward for bring, A.V. Set forward ( πρόπεμψον); the technical expression both in the New Testament and the LXX., and also in classical Greek, for helping a person forward on their journey by supplying them with money food, letters of recommendation, escort, or whatever else they might require (see ; ; ; ; ; ; ).

Zenas the lawyer. He is utterly unknown. His name is short for Zenodorus, but whether he was "a Jewish scribe or Roman legist" can hardly be decided. But his companionship with Apollos, and the frequent application of the term νομικός in the New Testament to the Jewish scribes and lawyers (; ; ; , , ; ), makes it most probable that he was a Jewish lawyer.

Apollos; the well-known and eminent Alexandrian Jew, who was instructed in the gospel by Aquila and Priscilla at Ephesus, and became a favorite teacher at Corinth (; ; , and the following chapters, and ).

It is a probable conjecture of Lewin's that Apollos was the bearer of this letter, written at Corinth, and was on his way to Alexandria, his native place, taking Crete on the way.

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