Titus 3:4 (WEB)
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
Fathers and councils · 8
Origen
“But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed upon us richly,” we became such as we are.” — editor's note: Cf. Tit. iii. 3–6.
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Jerome
“Tit. iii. 4–7.” — the author cites it
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John Damascene
“But after God in His bowels of pity became in truth man for our salvation, not as He was seen by Abraham in the semblance of a man, nor as He was seen by the prophets, but…” — editor's note: St. John i. 14; Tit. iii. 4.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, that being justified by His grace, we might be made heirs, according to hope, of eternal life.” — editor's note: Tit. iii. 4.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Thus speaks the apostolic Scripture: “But after that the kindness and love of God our saviour to man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy, He saved us.”” — editor's note: Tit. iii. 3–5.
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Basil the Great
“Or, on the contrary, shall it smite us with amazement at once at the mighty power and love to man of the Saviour, in that He both endured to suffer with us in our infirmities, and was able to come down to our weakness?” — editor's note: φιλανθρωπία occurs twice in the N.T. (Acts xxviii. 2, and Titus iii. 4) and is in the former passage rendered by A.V. “kindness,” in the latter by “love to…
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Ambrose of Milan
“But now by the renewing of the Spirit we begin to be heirs of Christ, and joint-heirs with the Angels.”” — editor's note: Tit. iii. 3–7.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“As regards himself, the manifold love of God toward man, and His providential care for our race did, after shewing forth his merits under many intervening circumstances with ever greater brilliancy, set him up as a…” — editor's note: Tit. iii. 4.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.64.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16.