richmahn_en_tn/tit/01/05.md

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For this purpose

"This is the reason"

I left you in Crete

"I told you to stay in Crete"

that you might set in order things not yet complete

"so that you would finish arranging things that needed to be done"

ordain elders

"appoint elders" or "designate elders"

elders

In the early Christian churches, Christian elders gave spiritual leadership to the assemblies of believers.