Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Verse 16, but thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

Right. So he's saying that he's thankful to God that Titus loves the Corinthians as much as St. Paul does.

Right. To tell them, as he came to visit you, he really cares for you too.

He's not just sort of my errand boy, right?

But he also loves you.

For he not only accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, he went to you of his own

accord.

And we have sent with him the brother whose

praises in the gospel throughout all the churches. So he's saying St. Titus is coming back

and that he didn't send him this time. Like the last time he visited, St. Paul sent him,

right, for a particular reason. This time when St. Ditis is coming, it was his idea, right? He

wanted to come back to you, to see you, right, and to work there some more.

He doesn't get named here.

Well, when we get to the end, there's some possibilities.

Because at the end, you know, St. Paul does all the shoutouts, right?

To all the people.

So we'll talk about that more there as to what the possibility is.

But we just know right now that there's someone else

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