Jesus” and “God” as referents within the Pauline Letters indicates Paul’s affirmation of the deity of Jesus Christ. Paul continued to express this certainty throughout the Epistle to Titus. (See comments on 1:4; 2:13.) Having established his authority as God’s servant and Christ’s apostle, Paul amplified his role as an apostle with two prepositional phrases contained in a compound construction that is governed by the same preposition, kata. Although kata with the accusative is usually rendered “according