His receiving the exhortation means that he had undertaken this business, (687) from being exhorted to it by Paul. He afterwards corrects this by saying, that Titus had not been so much influenced by the advice of others, as he had felt stirred up of his own accord, in accordance with his active disposition.
(687) “ Que Tite auoit receu ceste charge;” — “That Titus had received this charge.”