Matthew Poole and continuators on Titus 1:13

13 This witness is true : Wherefore rebuke them sharply b, that they may be sound in the faith .

This testimony of Epimenides is true, what I have found by experience, and those of them that in profession have embraced the Christian Faith, may have some tincture of their Nations vices, if thou meetest with any such, reprove, or convince them [non-Latin text not transcribed] cuttingly, that is, sharply, severely, the metaphor possibly is fetched from Chirurgeons who cut out dead flesh to the quick,

that they may be sound in the Doctrine of the Gospel, or in their minds, not infected with any vice.