Fragmenta in epistulam ad Titum (in catenis) Tit 1,12-13a Since the poet who said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons," said this, rebuking them for wrongly showing a tomb of Zeus, who is not, and Paul used the same verse, so that he might not be thought to agree with the poet and to testify to the immortality of the one called Zeus, he added: This testimony is true. That one lied, advocating for Zeus, but I speak the truth when I say that the Cretans are always liars and lazy gluttons. This testimony is true, not that one. Tit 1,13b Since he often teaches gentleness by praising it, but he found the Cretans to be in need as it were of the sting of rebuke, for this reason he said that he should rebuke them sharply. Tit 1,15-16 To the pure, all things are pure. God made all things pure; but if they are impure, the accusation touches the one who created them. And this is "they profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny him." Tit 2,3 He showed that he calls women to the clerical state; for otherwise he would not have said "reverent in behavior." Tit 2,7 He took 'incorruptibility' with respect to the mind, and 'dignity' with respect to deed, so that one might abstain not only from a corrupt deed but also from a corrupt thought.

Fragmenta in epistulam ad Titum (in catenis) Tit 1,12-13a Ἐπειδὴ ὁ ποιητὴς ὁ εἰρηκὼς τὸ Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσται, κακὰ θηρία, γαστέρες ἀργαί, ἐπιλαμβανόμενος αὐτῶν εἶπεν ὡς κακῶς δεικνύντων τάφον ∆ιὸς τὸν οὐκ ὄντα, ἐχρήσατο δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ στίχῳ Παῦλος, ἴνα μὴ νομισθῇ τῷ ποιητῇ συντρέχειν καὶ τῷ λεγομένῳ ∆ιῒ μαρτυρεῖν ἀθανασίαν, ἐπήγαγεν· ἡ μαρτυρία αὕτη ἀληθής ἐστιν. ἐκεῖνος ἐψεύσατο τῷ ∆ιῒ συνηγορῶν, ἐγὼ δὲ ἀληθεύω λέγων ὅτι οἱ Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσταί εἰσιν καὶ γαστέρες ἀργαί. αὕτη ἡ μαρτυρία ἀληθής, οὐκ ἐκείνη. Tit 1,13b Ἐπειδὴ πολλάκις ἐπαινῶν ἐπιείκειαν ἐκδιδάσκει, εὗρεν δὲ τοὺς Κρῆτας χρείαν ἔχοντας ὥσπερ κέντρου τῆς ἐπιπλήξεως, διὰ τοῦτο εἶπεν ὅτι ἀποτόμως ἔλεγχε. Tit 1,15-16 Πάντα μὲν καθαρὰ τοῖς καθαροῖς. ὁ θεὸς πάντα καθαρὰ ἐποίησεν· εἰ δὲ ἀκάθαρτά ἐστιν, ἡ κατηγορία τοῦ δημιουρ345 γήσαντος ἅπτεται. καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ θεὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι, τοῖς δὲ ἔργοις ἀρνοῦνται. Tit 2,3 Ἔδειξεν ὅτι εἰς κλῆρον τὰς γυναῖκας καλεῖ· οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἱεροπρεπεῖς εἶπεν. Tit 2,7 Τὸ τῆς ἀδιαφορίας ἐπὶ τοῦ νοῦ ἔλαβεν, τὸ δὲ τῆς σεμνότητος ἐπὶ τοῦ ἔργου, ἵνα μὴ μόνον ἔργου ἀπέχῃ φθαρτοῦ ἀλλὰ καὶ νοήματος.