Adoption into the Canon
Adoption into the Canon
There may well be an echo of Titus 3:1 in Clement of Rome, and certainly some second-century writers quote Titus, including Tertullian and Ireneus. It is interesting that although Tatian rejects both letters to Timothy, he accepts that to Titus. Like the other Pastorals, Titus is absent from Marcion’s canon (probably for the same reasons) and present in the Muratorian Canon. From the end of the second century it was universally recognized. For its absence from p 46, see the comment on 2 Timothy.