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Tit_3:9. Contrast to the last words.
μωρὰς δὲ ζητήσεις καὶ γενεαλογίας κ . τ . λ .] ζητήσεις , see 1Ti_1:4; connected with μωράς also in 2Ti_2:23; καὶ γενεαλογίας , see Tit_1:4; the latter refers to the contents, the former to the form.
καὶ ἔριν [ ἔρεις ] καὶ μάχας νομικάς ] ἔρις , like the other words, serves to describe the behaviour of the heretics; it is not therefore ἔρεις τὰς πρὸς αἱρετικούς , as Chrysostom interprets it, but quarrels such as take place among the heretics. The μάχαι νομικαί are disputes about the law and the individual precepts of the law; see 1Ti_1:7 and Tit_1:14.
Heydenreich wrongly refers the adjective νομικάς also to ἔρεις . Hofmann even refers it to all the preceding conceptions, arbitrarily explaining νομικαί of the contents of the Pentateuch, i.e. of the Thora; with him, therefore, the ζητήσεις νομικαί are “discussions in which all disputed questions in the Thora are taken up,” and the γενεαλογίαι νομικαί are “investigations into the historical contents of the Thora.”
περιΐστασο ] see 2Ti_2:16.
With these fables and quarrels that go on among the heretics Titus is to have nothing to do.
Εἰσὶ γὰρ ἀνωφελεῖς καὶ μάταιοι ] contrast with ταῦτά ἐστι καλὰ κ . τ . λ .
μάταιος , like ὅσιος , 1Ti_2:8, is used as an adjective of two terminations.