14. Jewish fables--(See on
1Ti 1:4;
1Ti 4:7;
2Ti 4:4).
These formed the transition stage to subsequent Gnosticism; as yet the
error was but profitless, and not tending to godliness, rather than
openly opposed to the faith.
commandments of men--as to ascetic abstinence
(Tit 1:15;
Mr 7:7-9;
Col 2:16, 20-23;
1Ti 4:3).
that turn from the truth--whose characteristic is that they turn
away from the truth
(2Ti 4:4).
JFB.
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