Titus 1:14

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 genealogieswhich had always charmed the Israelite, as he traced his own pedigree from Seth and Abraham and David, were now beginning to soar into higher heights of speculation, till at length they dealt with angelic relationships and lost themselves in interminable mazes of celestial emanations." Dr Vaughan, The Wholesome Words of Jesus Christy, p. 7.

commandments of men See note on 1 Timothy 4:3 and Introduction, pp. 46, 48, 50; -erga escarum insumptionem scrupuloso agere videbantur," Theod. Mops. The addition of the participial clause without the articleleaves more emphasis on -men" as opposed to God the true lawgiver; the participle is only formally in agreement with men; the real stress is on the thought -desertion of the truth," - humancommandments with the truth abandoned." Compare Titus 1:6, where the main attribute to -children" is -believing" and -not in accusation &c." is secondary. Winer, Pt. iii. § 20, 4. The translation of A.V., by putting the comma after -men" and rendering - thatturn away" as the more general relative, seems nearer to this force of the Greek than the R.V. -men who turn."