human
such a person after once or twice admonishing him? Certainly not that he is to excommunicate him; the passage has nothing to do with formal excommunication. It is possible to maintain that the direction here given may _imply_ excommunication; but it is also possible to maintain that it need not imply anything of the kind; and therefore that such an interpretation substitutes an uncertain inference for what is certainly expressed. The word translated in the R.V.
gpt
and in the A.V.
human
is the same as that which is used in 1 Tim. v. 11 in the text,
gpt
Younger widows _refuse_ (παραιτοῦ). It means,
human
(comp. Heb. xii. 25). It is also used of things as well as of persons, and in much the same sense:
gpt
(1 Tim. iv. 7), and
human
Foolish and ignorant questions _refuse_ (2 Tim. ii. 23). The meaning, then, here seems to be that, after a few attempts to induce the heretical person to desist from his perverse and self-willed conduct, Titus is to waste no more time on him, because now he knows that his efforts will be useless. At first he did not know this; but after having failed once or twice, he will see that it is vain to repeat what produces no effect. The man's self-will is incorrigible; and not only that, but inexcusable; for he stands self-condemned. He deliberately chose what was opposed to the received teaching; and he deliberately persists in it after its erroneous character has been pointed out to him. He