grants his sole approval to Titus’s teaching, encouraging him to continue as he has begun. First of all, Paul teaches what kind of people should be chosen as ministers. Among other qualifications, he requires that a minister should be taught sound doctrine so that he can refute his adversaries. Here Paul takes the opportunity to censure the ways of the Cretans and especially rebukes the Jews, who made holiness consist of making distinctions between foods and other outward ceremonies. To refute their