Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Titus 1:14

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Jewish fables--(See on Ti1 1:4; Ti1 4:7; Ti2 4:4). These formed the transition stage to subsequent Gnosticism; as yet the error was but profitless, and not tending to godliness, rather than openly opposed to the faith. commandments of men--as to ascetic abstinence (Tit 1:15; Mar 7:7-9; Col 2:16, Col 2:20-23; Ti1 4:3). that turn from the truth--whose characteristic is that they turn away from the truth (Ti2 4:4).

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