Robertson Word Pictures - Titus 3:9 - 3:9

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Robertson Word Pictures - Titus 3:9 - 3:9


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Fightings about the law (machas nomikas). “Legal battles.” See note on 1Ti 6:4; 2Ti 2:23. Wordy fights about Mosaic and Pharisaic and Gnostic regulations.

Shun (periistaso). Present middle imperative of periistēmi, intransitive, step around, stand aside (2Ti 2:16). Common in this sense in the literary Koiné.

Unprofitable (anōpheleis). Old compound adjective (a privative and ophelos), in N.T. only here and Heb 7:18.