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Tit_1:16. Θεὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι ] not: “they pretend” (Matthies), but “they loudly and publicly confess,” that they know God. Paul leaves it undecided whether their confession is correct or not. He does not grant to them, as de Wette thinks, that “they have the theoretical knowledge of God, and in a practical aspect,” nor does he deny this to them. His purpose here is to declare that, in spite of this their confession, their actions are of such a nature as to argue that they had no knowledge of God: τοῖς δὲ ἔργοις ἀρνοῦνται ] ἀρνοῦνται , opposed to ὁμολογοῦσιν , see 1Ti_5:8; 2Ti_3:5. Supply Θεὸν εἰδέναι (so, too, van Oosterzee, Hofmann).
βδελυκτοὶ ὄντες καὶ ἀπειθεῖς ] βδελυκτός ( ἅπ . λεγ .), equivalent to abominabilis, detestable (comp. Luk_16:15); Luther: “whom God holds in abomination.”
The word is joined with ἀκάθαρτος in Pro_17:15, LXX. Paul does not apply this epithet to the heretics, because they were defiling themselves with actual worship of idols, which especially was regarded by the Jews as βδέλυγμα , but in order to describe their moral depravity.
καὶ ἀπειθεῖς ] “and disobedient,” synonymous with ἀνυπότακτοι in Tit_1:10; this indicates why they are βδελυκτοί .
καὶ πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἀδόκιμοι ] “the result of the preceding characteristics” (Wiesinger); ἀδόκιμος , as 2Ti_3:8.