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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Or: "loving" Him truly and without hypocrisy, or: "loving" His faithful ones, that is, Christians. He prayerfully wishes them well, that the gift of God may be preserved in them, or that His love for mankind may always abide with them, preserving them by grace. Or: may "grace" always abide with them, who are most in need of it, guarding both their souls and their bodies in the Holy Spirit. To Him be glory forever. Amen.
Oecumenius
All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. Greet those who love us in faith. Or it means those who love him, generally the faithful. And the phrase "in faith," as through faith. Finished, with divine help, of the Epistle to Titus. It was written from the city of Nicopolis in Macedonia to Titus, the ordained bishop of the first Church of the Cretans.
Western Saints
Jerome
Those who are with me greet you. And he had accustomed himself to say hello to Titus from everyone who was with him or at least properly to Titus, because he was such that he deserved the love of all who were with Paul. Truly great praise was attributed to Titus by everyone through Paul. Salute those who love us in faith. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then he greets them: first, on the part of the others; second, he asks them to greet the others; third, he sends his own greeting. In regard to the first, he says, all that are with me greet you, i.e., wish you health. Second, he says, greet them that love us in the faith, i.e., who live in the faith of Christ, because there is no friendship between believers and unbelievers: "should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord?" (2 Chr 19:2): or, that love us in the faith, i.e., with true affection: "a faithful friend is a …
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