Ver. 9. In contrast to such sound teaching, he again warns against that frivolous and disputative sort of teaching which he had previously characterized (Tit_1:10-14): but foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, avoid—
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, keep out of the way of, turn from them. And on this account, for they are unprofitable and vain—utterly wanting in the practical element which so remarkably characterizes the true doctrine of the gospel.