Critical and Exegetical Hand-book to the Epistles to Timothy and Titus (the Pastoral Epistles volume of Meyer’s Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar series), “Commentary on Titus 2:13”
“It cannot be decided on purely grammatical grounds, for μεγ. Θεοῦ and σωτῆρος ἡμ. may be two attributes referring to Ἰησ. Χριστοῦ; still it may be also that σωτῆρ. ἡμῶν Ἰησ. Χρ. is a subject distinct from μεγ. Θεοῦ, even although only one article is used.”
Huther sets out the history of the dispute among commentators and concludes that the single article does not settle it. In a footnote he adds: 'There are instances enough of two distinct subjects standing under one article only, and we cannot see why these instances should not be quoted here.'
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Provenance and verification note for Critical and Exegetical Hand-book to the Epistles to Timothy and Titus (the Pastoral Epistles volume of Meyer’s Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar series), Commentary on Titus 2:13
Confidence note. Bible Hub's commentary page was opened on 19 September 2026 and the passage read in full. Independent audit, 19 September 2026: this record previously attributed the passage to Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer and dated it 1880. The volume on the Pastoral Epistles in Meyer’s series is by Johann Eduard Huther (1807-1880); the text itself refers to Meyer in the third person (“comp. Meyer on the passage”, “my commentary on the passages”), and the Pulpit Commentary on the same Bible Hub page summarises the position as “Huther’s conclusion”. The German fourth edition is 1876 and English printings include Edinburgh (T&T Clark) and New York (Funk & Wagnalls, 1885); Bible Hub does not say which printing it reproduces, so no date is recorded. The text was read on Bible Hub’s reproduction and not in any printed edition, so the confidence is “supported” rather than “verified”.
Scan provenance. Public-domain nineteenth-century commentary reproduced in full text by Bible Hub.
Notes. Cited to show the site's readers that the dispute at Titus 2:13 predates the New World Translation by a century and is a genuine grammatical dispute, not an invention of either side.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-nwtv-huther-titus-2-13