Titus 1:5

Verse 5. For this cause left I thee in Crete. Comp. See Barnes "1 Ti 1:3". On the situation of Crete, see the Intro. § 2. That thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting. Marg., left undone. The Greek is, "the things that are left;" that is, those which were left unfinished; referring, doubtless, to arrangements which had been commenced, but which for some cause had been left incomplete. Whether this had occurred because he had been driven away by persecution, or called away by important duties demanding his attention elsewhere, cannot now be determined. The word rendered, "set in order"-- epidiorywsh-- occurs nowhere else in the New Testament.