Dylan569
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"With the succession of Augustus[27BC-14AD], though, Crete was officially incorporated into the Roman empire. The emperor created a colony at Knossos, and the city, along with the island in general, benefitted from an influx of immigrants which brought a prosperity Crete had not seen for centuries. Prominent settlers included veterans from the legions, traders, and Jews in what became a thriving Roman province with its governor residing at Gortyn."
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"There are also many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach. It was one of them, their very own prophet[Epimenides?] who said, “Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons.” That testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, so that they may become sound in the faith, not paying attention to Jewish myths or to commandments of those who reject the truth." (Titus 1:10-14 NRSVAue)
Matthew Henry
"One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, that is, one of the Cretans, not of the Jews, Epimenides a Greek poet, likely to know and unlikely to slander them."
Baker's New Testament Commentary
"Tit_3:12. These Jewish church-members of the Pharisaic type and tinged with incipient gnosticism, which led at times to licentiousness and at times to asceticisms (see on 1Ti_4:3-4), were Cretans — there were many Jews in Crete (cf. Act_2:11) —, and, in addition to being influenced by unbelieving Jews (see on Tit_1:14-16), had absorbed the worst character-traits of their non-Jewish countrymen. This had not been a chore, for the Jew and the Cretan had something in common. The employment of trickery or deception for selfish advantage characterized both (cf. Joh_1:47 with Tit_1:12). An honest Jew or an honest Cretan seems to have been an exception. And certainly the combination Cretan-Jew was not a happy one."
Ancient Crete
Crete is an island in the eastern Mediterranean which during the Bronze Age produced the influential Minoan civilization with its distinctive architecture and art. An important member of the Greek world...
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"There are also many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach. It was one of them, their very own prophet[Epimenides?] who said, “Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons.” That testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, so that they may become sound in the faith, not paying attention to Jewish myths or to commandments of those who reject the truth." (Titus 1:10-14 NRSVAue)
Matthew Henry
"One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, that is, one of the Cretans, not of the Jews, Epimenides a Greek poet, likely to know and unlikely to slander them."
Baker's New Testament Commentary
"Tit_3:12. These Jewish church-members of the Pharisaic type and tinged with incipient gnosticism, which led at times to licentiousness and at times to asceticisms (see on 1Ti_4:3-4), were Cretans — there were many Jews in Crete (cf. Act_2:11) —, and, in addition to being influenced by unbelieving Jews (see on Tit_1:14-16), had absorbed the worst character-traits of their non-Jewish countrymen. This had not been a chore, for the Jew and the Cretan had something in common. The employment of trickery or deception for selfish advantage characterized both (cf. Joh_1:47 with Tit_1:12). An honest Jew or an honest Cretan seems to have been an exception. And certainly the combination Cretan-Jew was not a happy one."
