Titus 2:7 · Major/minor border
Purity in the Teaching List
Codex H adds a list item in instructions about example and teaching.
Thesis: Codex H matters in Titus 2:7 because it adds 'purity' in a teaching list; the addition shapes emphasis without changing the moral instruction.
Titus 2:7 tells Titus to show himself as a model of good works and to bring integrity to his teaching.
Codex H adds ἁγνίαν, 'purity,' in the list. That is meaningful because list items affect how a command is heard.
Where the verse sits: Titus as a model
The verse appears in instructions for different groups in the church. Titus himself is told to be a pattern of good works.
The disputed word sits in the list describing the quality of his teaching.
What Codex H changes: it adds purity
Codex H includes ἁγνίαν, usually rendered purity. SBLGNT omits it.
The row has many unclear flags, so the post should keep the caveat visible even though the addition itself is meaningful.
The verse with and without the change: Titus 2:7 adds purity
Without the Codex H addition: Show yourself as a model of good works, with integrity and dignity in teaching.
With the Codex H addition: Show yourself as a model of good works, with integrity, purity, and dignity in teaching.
Book and chapter context: sound doctrine becomes visible conduct
Titus is concerned with teaching that produces ordered, credible Christian life.
Chapter 2 connects doctrine to behavior in older men, older women, younger women, younger men, servants, and Titus himself.
Scholarship snapshot: meaningful list expansion
The audit classifies the row on the major/minor border: a meaningful expansion, but low doctrinal risk.
List passages can attract additions because a fitting virtue can sound natural in context. That fit does not by itself prove originality.
What this adds: a visible example of list growth
Codex H shows how a teaching list can become fuller in transmission.
That helps readers understand why textual notes sometimes appear beside morally unobjectionable words.
Synthesis: the instruction remains recognizable
Purity fits Titus 2, but the textual question is whether it belongs in this line.
Codex H gives a useful witness to the fuller list. The passage's call to credible teaching remains the same.