Titus 1:12
One of themselves, even a bprophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, *slow bellies.
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
εἶπέ τις ἐξ αὐτῶν, ἴδιος αὐτῶν προφήτης, Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσται, κακὰ θηρία, γαστέρες ἀργαί.
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Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
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slow bellies-idle gluttons.
Epimenides, a Greek poet, thus spake of the people of this country, whom he calls a prophet, because he was a poet, and wrote something about such divine oracles as they had.
the Cretians were famous for lying and falsehood, so as it became a proverb. He called them
either for their cruelty or treachery.
a lazy, idle people, that had much more inclination to eat and drink than they had to work in any honest labour. From all this the apostle would infer, that Titus had the more need be watchful in his place, and faithful in the discharge of his office, being amongst such a people.