Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Titus 1:14
Commandments of men — The Jewish or other teachers, whoever they were that turned from the truth.
Commandments of men — The Jewish or other teachers, whoever they were that turned from the truth.
Verse 14. _NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES_] See on 1 Timothy 1:4; 1 Timothy 4:7. _COMMANDMENTS OF MEN_] The injunctions of the scribes and Pharisees, which they added to the law of God. _THAT TUR...
NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES ... - See the notes at 1 Timothy 1:4. AND COMMANDMENTS OF MEN THAT TURN FROM THE TRUTH - Notes, Matthew 15:3....
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The salutation (Titus 1:1)_ 2. Instructions concerning elders (Titus 1:5) 3. Warnings against false teachers (Titus 1:10)...
TITUS-' ATTITUDE TO FALSE TEACHERS. Loyalty to sound doctrine is needful for silencing many deceitful teachers not outside the Church (Hort), but self-constituted instructors within its borders, who r...
THE MAINSPRINGS OF APOSTLESHIP (Titus 1:1-4)...
For that very reason correct them with severity, that they may grow healthy in the faith and not pay attention to Jewish fables and to rules and regulations made by men who persist in turning their ba...
GIVING HEED. Greek. _prosecho_. Compare 1 Timothy 1:4. JEWISH FABLES. Compare Colossians 2:16; 1 Timothy 1:4. COMMANDMENTS. Greek. _entole_, MEN. App-123. turn from
_not giving heed to Jewish fables_ See note on 1 Timothy 1:4 and Introduction, pp. 45 sqq. -The old Judaism got itself entangled in a new Platonism. Those _endless genealogies_which had always charmed...
THE HERETICAL TEACHERS AND TITUS’ DUTY IN REGARD TO THEM...
ΜῊ ΠΡΟΣΈΧΟΝΤΕΣ ἸΟΥΔΑΪΚΟΙ͂Σ ΜΎΘΟΙΣ, _not giving heed to Jewish fables_. see on 1 Timothy 1:4 and _Introd._ chap. IV. ΚΑῚ ἘΝΤΟΛΑΙ͂Σ�, _and commandments of men who turn away from the truth_. As the next...
ΠΡΟΣΈΧΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΧΩ (G4337) обращать внимание на, посвящать свое время чему-л. (1 Timothy 1:4). ΜΎΘΟΣ (G3454) миф (1 Timothy 1:4). ΈΝΤΟΛΑΪ́Σ _dat. pl. от_ ΕΝΤΟΛΉ ...
THE DESCRIPTION AND REFUTATION OF FALSE TEACHERS Titus 1:10-16. _TEXT 1:10-16_ 10 For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must...
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. —Jewish fables had been taught for many years and had displaced the commandments of God. Titus was to bring these f...
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. NOT GIVING HEED TO - namely, "they" (). JEWISH FABLES (notes, ; ;...
1 Paul writes this letter in the character of a slave. This shows that the epistle deals with service. He adds the title apostle, to give weight to his injunctions. 2 Eonian life, usually called "eve...
JEWISH FABLES] e.g. the sort of rules, for maintaining which our Lord condemned the Pharisees (Matthew 15:23, etc.)....
GREETING. DIRECTIONS FOR ORGANISING THE CRETAN CHURCH 1-16. 'Paul an Apostle, to Titus his own son in the faith. In appointing elders in the towns of Crete, see to their character, and be sure that t...
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT THIS LETTER WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT TITUS Titus was a *Gentile Christian (Galatians 2:3). Titus had probably become a Christi...
The ‘*Jewish false stories’ are probably the same ones that Titus 3:9 and 1 Timothy 1:4 refer to. Some *Jews had made up stories about people in the *Old Testament. Then people wasted time as they dis...
NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES. — Such as we now find embodied in the Talmud. (See Note on 1 Timothy 1:4.) The oral law and traditional interpretations and glosses had, to a great measure, obscured...
I have just mentioned rebuke as a necessary element in a presbyter's teaching. This is especially needful in dealing with Cretan heretics, in whom the Jewish strain is disagreeably prominent. Alike in...
προσέχοντες : See on 1 Timothy 1:4. The word implies the giving one's consent, as well as one's attention. Ἰουδαϊκοῖς : This determines the nature of the μῦθοι referred to in these epistles. See on 1...
REPROVE THOSE WHOSE WORKS DENY GOD Titus 1:10 The Judaizing teachers, who insisted that men must become Jews before they could be Christians, were always on Paul's heels, visiting his churches and di...
Titus is not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. From the letter we learn that he was a convert of the apostle. Moreover, we know that he was a Greek. This letter reached him while he was in Crete,...
SILENCE THE FALSE TEACHERS Elders must be able to silence, as when wind instruments cease to play, such false teachings (Titus 1:11). To stop them, they may answer them or deny them the pulpit, or bot...
Jewish fables, and commandments of men. False traditions of the Jewish doctors, which were multiplied at that time. Calvin pretended from hence, that holydays and fasting days, and all ordinances of...
(12) One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. (13) This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in...
The epistle to Titus has much in common with those to Timothy, as all must observe; not only as being addressed to a fellow-servant, and indeed a son in the faith, but in general similarity of charact...
14_And may not listen to Jewish fables _He now shews in what “sound faith” consists — when it is not corrupted by any “fables.” But in guarding against the danger he prescribes this remedy — not to gi...
The Epistle to Titus is occupied with the maintenance of order in the churches of God. The especial object of those written to Timothy as the maintenance of sound doctrine, although speaking of other...
NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES,.... Concerning God himself, the angels, and the creation of man; concerning the giving of the law at Mount Sinai; concerning the Messiah and his earthly kingdom, and...
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Ver. 14. _Not giving heed to Jewish fables_] Wherewith their Talmud is full farced, which while they hug overly ha...
_One of themselves_ That is, one of their own countrymen, who could not be unacquainted with their conduct, or disposed to belie them; _even a prophet of their own_ This was the poet Epimenides, who,...
NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES AND COMMANDMENTS OF MEN, THAT TURN FROM THE TRUTH....
THE FALSE TEACHERS CHARACTERIZED AND THE QUESTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM DISCUSSED....
Paul writes both as a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, so that in the epistle considerate care is mingled with firm authority. His basis of writing is, first, the faith of God's elect; t...
10-16 False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose such in good time, that their folly being made manifest, they may go no further They had a base end in what they did; serving a worl...
NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES: by his calling them _Jewish fables, _ (not _old wives fables, _ as in the Epistle to Timothy), he lets us know that he reflects upon those Jews that seemed to be pros...
Titus 1:14 not G3361 heed G4337 (G5723) Jewish G2451 fables G3454 and G2532 commandments G1785 men G444 from...
Titus 1:13. Paul boldy adds his own testimony to base on it an exhortation to a sharp or severe handling of the people. REBUKE is ‘confute,' as in Titus 1:9 the elders were to do. SHARPLY, or unspa...
See 1 Timothy 1:4 for προσεχÂω and μυθοις, only here we have _Jewish_ (Ιουδαικοις) added. Perhaps a reference to the oral traditions condemned by Christ in Mark 7:2-8. See also Colossians 2:22, appare...
While reading this chapter, we must understand that Titus was sent to Crete, to superintend the preaching of the gospel throughout that island. Crete was at that time inhabited by a people who were on...
CONTENTS: Divine order for local churches. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: Divine faith rests not on fallible reasonings and opinions of men, but on the infallible Word of God, the...
Titus 1:1. _Paul, a servant of God,_ and not a servant of Moses. This style is much the same as in 2 Timothy 1:1, respecting the promise of eternal life. This promise is _according to the faith of God...
AND NO LONGER HOLD ON TO. Many Jewish traditions were harmless (see Acts 21:20 and note). But _these_ Jewish legends and human commandments fooled people into rejecting God's Truth! Compare 1 Timothy...
_Not __GIVING_ _HEED_ _TO_ _JEWISH_ _FABLES_ The perverting power of trivialities Trivialities, and mere human conceptions, exert a perverting power (1) by distracting attention from the essentials...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:10 The Problem: False Teachers. The description of the false teachers contrasts directly with the descriptions of what the elders should be (vv. Titus 1:5).
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:14 JEWISH MYTHS. On “myths,” see note on 1 Tim. 1:4. The specific content of these myths is unknown. The false teaching in Titus 1
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 1:10. VAIN TALKERS.—Men of aimless speech, which is devoid of any good result. Men whose speech tendeth to poverty. DECEIVERS.—The word, which is peculiar to St....
EXPOSITION TITUS 1:1 _Knowledge _for _acknowledging, _A.V.; _according to _for _after, _A.V. A SERVANT OF GOD (δοῦλος Θεοῦ); so in the superscriptions: Romans 1:1;...
Ver. 14. Further, and with the view especially of securing real soundness of faith, the apostle would have them exhorted not to give heed to _Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn away from...
Not much is known about Titus. Paul makes slight references to him in the Corinthian epistles. Outside of that we know very little about Titus, except what we can pick up in the book. Evidently he was...
1 Timothy 1:4; 2 Peter 2:22; 2 Timothy 4:4; Colossians 2:22; Gala
Not giving heed [μ η π ρ ο σ ε χ ο ν τ ε ς]. Reprove sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, and may show their soundness by not giving heed, etc. See on 1 Timothy 1:4. To Jewish fables [ι ο υ...
THE EPISTLE TO TITUS Titus 1:1 _and Titus 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Epistle of Paul to Titus carries with it some very striking "admonitions which will be found most helpful to us. Titus was a yo...