{"id":3356,"date":"2025-08-08T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:39:35","slug":"east-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=3356","title":{"rendered":"East Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":true},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":true},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"<strong>Summary<\/strong><br><em>Introduction and part 2<\/em><br>1:1-3 - The contrast between Cretan character and God's character<br>1:4 - The objectivity of our faith<br><em>Part 3<\/em><br>1:5-16 - What is lacking<br>2:1-10 - How different kinds of people are to adorn the gospel<br><em>Part 4<\/em><br>2:11-15 - What the gospel does<br>2:12 - What the true teachers are to teach<br>3:1-2 - Contrast between what we are to be and what we were<br>3:3 - Contrast between what we are to be and what we were<br><em>Parts 5 and 6<\/em><br>3:4-7 - What the gospel is<br><em>Part 7<\/em><br>3:8 - What our response to the kindness and love of God is to be<br><em>Part 8<\/em><br>3:9-11 - The dangers of intellectual sensualism<br>3:12-14 - Greetings and a wider eldership\",\"id\":\"dcb2eb87-2e8d-41f9-8331-d2214525f781\"},{\"content\":\"<strong>Octavius Winslow<\/strong>: Personal declension and the revival of religion in the soul. Banner of Truth Trust 1993\",\"id\":\"ed61f93f-c4e7-432c-9116-2a8d85d2e3b5\"},{\"content\":\"<strong>Matthew Henry<\/strong> provides the following summary of the letter:<br><strong>c1<\/strong> In this chapter we have:<br>- The preface or introduction to the epistle, showing from and to whom it was written, with the apostle's salutation and prayer for Titus, wishing all blessings to him v1-4.<br>- Entrance into the matter, by signifying the end of Titus's being left at Crete v5.<br>- And how the same should be pursued in reference both to good and bad ministers v6 to the end.<br><strong>c2<\/strong> The apostle here directs Titus about the faithful discharge of his own office generally v1, and particularly as to several sorts of persons v2-10 and gives the grounds of these and of other following directions v11-14, with a summary direction in the close v15.<br><strong>c3<\/strong> Of duties which concern Christians more in common, and the reasons of them v1-8. What Titus in teaching should avoid, and how he should deal with a heretic, with some other directions v9-14, and salutations in the close v15<br> - from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1991 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.\",\"id\":\"4a64aeaf-b9ea-4519-ba9e-57e66561815b\"}]"},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","post-password-required","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}