Not giving heed to Jewish fables: by his calling them Jewish fables, ( not old wives’ fables, as in the Epistle to Timothy), he lets us know that he reflects upon those Jews that seemed to be proselyted, but yet had a tincture of their Jewish education, and spent their discourse about such fabulous traditions as the Jews had.
And commandments of men; and the traditions and constitutions of the scribes and Pharisees.
That turn from the truth; abhorring the gospel, and the doctrine of truth in it.