Titus 1:2
The mekor (basis) of this is a tikvah of Chayyei Olam which Hashem Who cannot speak sheker + 1:2 Num 24:19; 1Sm 15:29 promised before the Yamim HaOlam (days of eternity),
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
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Cross References
Numbers 23:19El is not an ish, that He should lie; 1 neither a ben adam, that He should change His mind; 1 hath He said, and shall He not do it? 1 Or hath He spoken, and shall He not carry it out? 1
Proverbs 8:23I was set up [to reign] me'olam (from eternity), 1 from the beginning, or ever eretz was. 1
Matthew 25:46And these will go away into Onesh Olam (Eternal Punishment), but the tzaddikim into Chayyei Olam (Eternal Life). + 25:46 Isa 66:24; Dan 12:2
Mark 10:30But that he shall receive a hundredfold now in the Olam Hazeh, batim (houses) and achim and achayot and imahot and banim and sadot with redifot (persecutions); and in Olam Habah, Chayyei Olam.
John 5:39You search the Kitvei Hakodesh because you think in them you have Chayyei Olam. And those are the ones giving solemn edut about me.
John 6:68In reply, Shim'on Kefa said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, to whom will we go? You have the divrei haChayyei Olam.
Matthew Henry on Titus 1:2-5
Titus Completed by Jeremiah Smith . This Epistle of Paul to Titus is much of the same nature with those to Timothy; both were converts of Paul, and his companions in labours and sufferings; both were in the office of evangelists, whose work was to water the churches planted by the apostles, and to set in order the things that were wanting in them: they were vice-apostles, as it were, working the work of the Lord, as they did, and mostly under their direction, though not despotic and arbitrary, but with the… Read the whole commentary →