Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Titus 3:9

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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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avoid--stand aloof from. Same Greek, as in Ti2 2:16; see on Ti2 2:16. foolish--Greek, "insipid"; producing no moral fruit. "Vain talkers." genealogies--akin to the "fables" (see on Ti1 1:4). Not so much direct heresy as yet is here referred to, as profitless discussions about genealogies of aeons, &c., which ultimately led to Gnosticism. Synagogue discourses were termed daraschoth, that is, "discussions." Compare "disputer of this world (Greek, 'dispensation')." strivings about the law--about the authority of the "commandments of men," which they sought to confirm by the law (Tit 1:14; see on Ti1 1:7), and about the mystical meaning of the various parts of the law in connection with the "genealogies."

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