Alfred Edward Humphreys

The Epistles to Timothy and Titus Alfred Edward Humphreys

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... thee away." These were words very different from those of the poets of Greece, and gave an idea of God quite other from that formed by Homer, in whose writings he had found delight; so Titus left his Greek studies and his native island, and sought Jerusalem, the chief city of that people of whom the prophet spake such great things. And when he was there, he saw Jesus, and heard Him teach. Perhaps he was one of those Greeks whom St Andrew brought to Christ. He believed, and was of the number of the first disciples. He remained at Jerusalem after the Ascension, and the descent of the Holy Ghost. After he joined St Paul he accompanied him in most of his journeys. St Paul consecrated him to be Bishop of Crete and left him there. When death approached he saw angels coming from heaven in a glorious train to fetch his soul, and his face was lit up with joy at their approach and shone with supernatural splendour. He committed his people to God in long and earnest prayer, and then yielded up his spirit in peace to Christ his Saviour. The body of Titus was kept with great veneration in the cathedral of Gortyna; but that city having been ruined by the Saracens, in A.d. 823, the metropolitan see was transferred to Candia, 17 miles from the ancient Gortyna; there the head of Titus was preserved till it was carried off by the Venetians, and it is now among the sacred treasures of St Mark's at Venice. C. THE THEME AND CONTENTS OF THE EPISTLES. CHAPTER IX. Analysis Of The Epistles. The Apostolate; its scope, its sphere, its method, its efficiency; this has been shewn to be the main theme of the Pastoral Epistles. See above, Int. p. 18. It is not unfolded in any set and formal way, because the Epistles are letters, first and foremost, to old friends and pupils. See Life o...