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TITUS , one of the companions of St See also:

Paul, was of See also:

Greek origin (Gal. ii. 3), and was perhaps a native of See also:

ASIA

Asia See also:

Minor. He appears to have been among the apostle's earliest converts, being first mentioned (Gal. ii. 1) as having accompanied Paul and See also:

BARNABAS

Barnabas to See also:

Jerusalem (cf. Acts xv. 2) " to represent the success of the Pauline See also:

GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

gospel outside Judaism." Here the conservative See also:

section demanded that he should be circumcised; but Paul successfully opposed this (see PAUL). Subsequently he came into See also:

close connexion with the Achaean churches and especially with See also:

Corinth, bearing letters from Paul and being charged with promoting the proposed collection for poor Christians in See also:

JUDAEA

Judaea. In these matters he proved himself a trusty See also:

LIEUTENANT

lieutenant, winning the esteem of the See also:

CORINTHIANS

Corinthians by his zeal and disinterestedness. The liberality which a See also:

GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation later was recognized by See also:

Clement of See also:

Rome as a traditional virtue of the Corinthian See also:

Church owed its inception to Titus. In the See also:

EPISTLE

epistle with which his name is associated he is represented (Titus i. 5) as having been See also:

LEFT

left by Paul in See also:

CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

Crete to " set in See also:

order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city." He is expected afterwards to join Paul at See also:

NICOPOLIS, or ACTIA NICOPOLIS

Nicopolis (iii. 12).

In 2 Tim. iv. to he is spoken of as having gone (perhaps on a See also:

MISSION

mission) to See also:

DALMATIA (Ger. Dalmatien; Ital. Dalmazia; Serbo-Croatian, Dalmacija)

Dalmatia. Tradition, obviously resting on the Epistle to Titus, has it that he died in Crete as See also:

bishop at an advanced See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age; another See also:

LINE

line connects him with See also:

Venice. Attempts to make him the author of the "We" sections in Acts and to include him in the seventy disciples are futile. There is more to be said for the See also:

SUGGESTION

suggestion that he was the See also:

BROTHER

brother of St See also:

Luke. See A. Souter and E. P. Boys-See also:

Smith in The Expository Times, xviii. 285, 335, 380.

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