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Desiring (θέλοντες)
The participle is explanatory and confirmatory of the preceding statement: since they desire.
Teachers of the law (νομοδιδάσκαλοι)
oP. It occurs in Luk 5:17 and Act 5:34. Νόμος is, apparently, the Mosaic law. These teachers may have been arbitrary interpreters of that law, but in what way, cannot be shown.
Understanding (νοοῦντες)
Better, though they understand.
What they say - whereof they affirm (ἃ λέγουσιν - περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται)
The latter expression is an advance on the former, as appears not only from the verbs themselves, but from the different pronominal expressions. They know not what they say, nor what kind of things they are of which they speak so confidently. The compound διαβεβαιοῦσωαι to affirm, Pasto. Comp. Tit 3:8. The false teachers announce their errors with assurance.