But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
We are all by nature greedy for power, unwilling to submit to anyone, and we saw the magistrates opposed to Christ and thought them unworthy of honor. Paul commands subjection to rulers and obedience to their laws and edicts not as optional, but as a general duty binding on all believers.
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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...