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Shun (περιίστασο)
Po. In Pastorals, here and Tit 3:9. Originally, to place round; to stand round. In the middle voice, to turn one's self about, as for the purpose of avoiding something: hence, avoid, shun. Often in Class., but in this sense only in later Greek.
Profane and vain babblings (βεβήλους κενοφωνίας)
For profane, see on 1Ti 1:9. Vain is superfluous, being implied in babblings. For babblings, see on 1Ti 6:20. Babble is a word of early origin, an imitative word, formed on the efforts of a young child to speak, and having its counterparts in many languages. It appears very early in English, as in Piers Plowman:
“And so I bablede on my bedes.”
Vis. 2487.
Bacon:
“Who will open himselfe to a blab or a babler?”
Ess. vi
Shakespeare:
“Leave thy vain bibble babble.”
Twelfth N. iv. 2.
They will increase (προκόψουσιν)
See on Rom 13:12, and see on Gal 1:14.
Ungodliness (ἀσεβείας)
The opposite of εὐσέβεια godliness, for which see on 1Ti 2:2. In Pastorals, Tit 2:12. In Paul, Rom 1:18; Rom 11:26, cit.