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1Ti 6:4. Τετύφωται, μηδὲν ἐπιστάμενος) Harpocration: τετύφωμαι, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐμβεβρόντημαι, ἐξω τῶν φρενῶν γέγονα, κ.τ.λ. τετύφωμαι for ἐμβεβρόντημαι, I am gone out of my senses. Compare Raphelius ad Polyb.-μηδὲν ἐπιστάμενος, knowing nothing) although he claims knowledge to himself: comp. ch. 1Ti 1:7.-νοσῶν περὶ, sick [‘doting’], or morbid, about) The antithesis is wholesome, 1Ti 6:3. Plut.: νοσεῖν περὶ δόξαν, περὶ σφραγίδια πολυτελῆ, to be sick for glory, for expensive seals (signets).-λογομαχίας, strifes of words) 2Ti 2:14, note.[47]-ἐξ ὧν γίνεται, from which cometh) Ib. 2Ti 2:23.-ἔρις, contention) Tit 3:9.-ὑπόνοιαι πονηραὶ, evil surmisings) by which those who do not at once agree to all things, are regarded as enemies (objects of odium).
[47] Not as Engl. Vers. of 2Ti 2:14, “Strifes about words,” but “strifes in (i.e. by means of) words about” most momentous subjects.-ED.