1 Timothy 1:7

understanding More exactly, though they understand; the negative particle used shews that the clause is subordinate to, not parallel with -setting themselves up," or -desiring," and expresses theirthoughts. -We choose to teach, without understanding." Winer, § 55. 5 b, p. 607.

neither what they say, nor whereof They neither understand the statements they make nor even what the questions are about which they make such confident assertions. Confidently affirm gives the force of the preposition in the compound verb; it occurs in Titus 3:8; but not elsewhere in N. T. The middle voice expresses the secondarykind of making firm, by speech, instead of act, as commonly in Class. Gr. Compare to drawup a narrative, Luke 1:1; -I laidbefore them the Gospel," Galatians 2:2; Winer, Pt. iii. § 38, 2 6, p. 317.