SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:10
Porque hay an muchos contumaces, y habladores de vanidades, y engaadores (de las almas), mayormente los que son de la circuncisin,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Titus 1:10
Verse 10. There are many unruly] Persons who will not receive the sound doctrine, nor come under wholesome discipline. Vain talkers] Empty boasters of knowledge, rights, and particular privileges; all noise, empty parade, and no work.
Deceivers] Of the souls of men by their specious pretensions.
They of the circumcision] The Judaizing teachers, who maintained the necessity of circumcision, and of observing the rites and ceremonies of the Mosaic law, in order to the perfecting of the Gospel.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. For there are many unruly , etc.] Persons who are not subject to the law of God, or Gospel of Christ; whose spirits are not subject to the prophets; and who will not submit themselves to them that have the rule over them, nor attend to the admonitions of the church, nor be brought into any regularity and order; and there were many of this sort, who were not sent forth by Christ, or his churches, but went forth of themselves, and were corrupters of the word; and therefore Christ's ministers ought to hold fast the faithful word, and convince such opposers by sound doctrine; and vain talkers ; who deliver out in their discourses empty, trifling, superficial, and frivolous things; which have no solidity and substance in them, nor do they tend to edification; only great swelling words of vanity, vain jangling and babbling about things to no profit. And deceivers ; both of themselves and others; who lie in wait to deceive, and are deceitful workers; and by their good words, and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple; and so are dangerous persons, and of pernicious consequence: especially they of the circumcision ; or of the Jews, as the Ethiopic version renders it; that is, not the unbelieving Jews, but such as professed Christianity, judaizing Christians, who joined Moses and Christ and blended the law and Gospel together; who taught that circumcision, and the observance of other ceremonies of the law, were necessary to justification and salvation; and hereby did a great deal of mischief among the churches.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-16 - False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose such in good time, that their folly being made manifest, they may go no furthe They had a base end in what they did; serving a worldly interest unde pretence of religion: for the love of money is the root of all evil Such should be resisted, and put to shame, by sound doctrine from the Scriptures. Shameful actions, the reproach of heathens, should be fa from Christians; falsehood and lying, envious craft and cruelty, bruta and sensual practices, and idleness and sloth, are sins condemned eve by the light of nature. But Christian meekness is as far from cowardl passing over sin and error, as from anger and impatience. And thoug there may be national differences of character, yet the heart of man in every age and place is deceitful and desperately wicked. But the sharpest reproofs must aim at the good of the reproved; and soundnes in the faith is most desirable and necessary. To those who are defile and unbelieving, nothing is pure; they abuse, and turn things lawfu and good into sin. Many profess to know God, yet in their lives den and reject him. See the miserable state of hypocrites, such as have form of godliness, but are without the power; yet let us not be s ready to fix this charge on others, as careful that it does not appl to ourselves __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
10. Vain talkers (mataiologoi). N.T.o . o LXX, o Class. See on vain jangling, 1 Tim. i. 6.Deceivers (frenapatai). N.T.o . o LXX, o Class. See on frenapatan to deceive, Gal. vi. 3.
They of the circumcision (oi ek thv peritomhv). The phrase only here in Pastorals. Oi ejk peritomhv Acts x. 45; xi. 2; Rom. iv. 12; Galatians ii. 12; Col. iv. 11. There can be no doubt of the presence of Jews in Crete. Tacitus (Hist. v. 2) even makes the absurd statement that the Jews were Cretan exiles; and that from their residence in the vicinity of the Cretan Mount Ida they were called Idaei, whence Judaei. There appears to have been some confusion between the Palestinians and the Philistines - the Cherethim or Cherethites, who, in Exekiel. xxv. 16; Zephariah. ii. 5 are called in LXX Krhtev Jews were in the island in considerable numbers between the death of Alexander and the final destruction of Jerusalem. In 1 Macc. xv. 23 the Cretan city of Gortyna is mentioned among the places to which letters were written by Lucius, the Rom. consul, on behalf of the Jews when Simon Maccabaeus renewed the treaty which his brother Judas had made with Rome. Josephus (Ant. xvii. 12,1; Bell. Jud. ii. 7, 1) says that Herod's pseudo-son Alexander imposed on the Cretan Jews on his way to Italy. Philo (Leg. ad Cai. 36) makes the Jewish envoys say to Caligula that all the principal islands of the Mediterranean, including Crete, were full of Jews.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
1:10 {Vain talkers} (mataiologoi). Late and rare compound, empty talkers, in Vett. Val. and here. See #1Ti 1:6 for mataiologia. {Deceivers} (phrenapatai). Late and rare compound, in papyri, eccl. writers, here alone in N.T. "Mind-deceivers." See #Ga 6:3 for phrenapatain. {Specially they of the circumcision} (malista hoi ek tes peritomes). Same phrase in #Ac 11:2; Ga 2:12; Col 4:11. Jews are mentioned in Crete in #Ac 2:11. Apparently Jewish Christians of the Pharisaic type tinged with Gnosticism.
