Matthew Poole and continuators on Titus 3:14

14 And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses , that they be not unfruitful z.

Either those of our Order, Ministres of the Gospel, or those that are Christians, learn

in the Greek it is to excel, or to be in the front, or to shew forth, or maintain, and each fence hath its patrons of note

for the necessary uses of the Church, or of others, or for their own necessary uses. I take their sense who would expound the phrase, maintain good works, by learn some honest Trade to be forrein to the true sense of the phrase.

Marginal references: Or, to profess honest trades.; 2 Pet. 1.8.