10 [a]For there are many disobedient and vain talkers and deceivers of minds, chiefly they of the [b]Circumcision,

11 Whose mouths must be stopped, which subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

12 [c]One of themselves, even one of their own Prophets said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:10 An applying of the general proposition to a particular: The Cretans above all others need sharp reprehensions: both because their minds are naturally given to lies and slothfulness, and also because of certain covetous Jews, which under a color of godliness joined partly certain vain traditions, and partly old ceremonies with the Gospel.
  2. Titus 1:10 Of the Jews, or rather of those Jews, which went about to join Christ and the Law together.
  3. Titus 1:12 Epimenides, who was counted a Prophet amongst them. Look upon Laertius and Cicero in his first book of Divination.

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