But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.
CHAPTER 3 Titus 3:1-3 1. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 1. Admone illos principibus et potestatibus subditos esse dicto oboedire ad omne opus bonum paratos esse 2. To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. 2.
Commenting on Titus 3:1-15
Here is the fifth and last thing in the matter of the epistle: what Titus should avoid in teaching; how he should deal with a heretic; with some other directions. Observe, I. That the apostle's meaning might be more clear and full, and especially fitted to the time and state of things in Crete, and the many judaizers among them, he tells Titus what, in...
Commenting on Titus 3:9-15
But avoid foolish questions,.... Such as were started in the schools of the Jews; see Ti2 2:23 and genealogies; of their elders, Rabbins, and doctors, by whom their traditions are handed down from one to another, in fixing which they greatly laboured; see Ti1 1:4 and contentions and strivings about the law; the rites and ceremonies of it, and about the sense of it, and...