The unruly rival teachers are to be repressed

10. many unruly Add men, leaving the pair of attributes to go together, as in the Pauline usage, empty talkers and deceivers of the mind. Both compounds occur only here in N.T.; but the substantive, meaning vaniloquentia, has occurred 1 Timothy 1:6, where the meaning is defined in what follows, -though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm;" and the verb, meaning seducit, is used Galatians 6:3 and defined by the context -if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing." Peile translates -self-deceivers," i.e. visionary enthusiasts, comparing Isaiah 44:20 and James 1:26.

specially they of the circumcision Judaizing Christians. Jews from Crete are named among the visitors to Jerusalem Acts 2:11, and the Christianising of the island cannot have been quite recent, even from Titus 1:6, -having faithful children."

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