t  Consult,  with  our  notes,  Gal.  11, 1, 3;  S  Cor .  zii,  18;  yili,  6, 16-S3;  U,  12, 13 ;  vll,  e-15;
^avw.  /r,  JO,


nO'RODUCTION  TO  TBOE  EPISTLE  TO  TITUa  7

Cretan  judges,  Rhadamanthos  and  Minos;  that  early  in  life  he  ob-
tained a  copy  of  the  Hebrew  Scriptures  and  learned  the  language  in  a
brief  time ;  and  that  he  was  present  at  the  Council  of  Jerusalem.  He
loftily  eulogizes  Titus  as  *Hhe  first  foundation  of  the  Church  of  the
Cretans ;  the  pillar  of  the  truth ;  the  prop  of  the  faith ;  the  silenceless
trumpet  of  the  eyangelic  preachings;  the  sublime  echo  of  the  tougue
of  Paul.*'  All  this  seems  to  show,  that,  however  little  this^  epistle
compliments  the  Cretans,  the  Cretans  contiived  to  be  very  proud  of
the  epistle.  There  is  an  antecedent  probability  that  Titus  would,
during  the  rest  of  his  life  after  the  death  of  Paul,  retain  a  sort  of
special  relation  to  Crete  as  its  proper  apostle,  and  the  specific  assign-
ment of  his  connexion  with  Gortyna  can  hardly  be  rejected  as  purely
fabulous.
