Verse 4
he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
This is a rather salty speech! A glance at the way various translations have rendered this is interesting:
He is blinded with conceit and really knows nothing, but is crazy with discussions and controversies about words, - Richard Francis Weymouth.He is a conceited idiot! His mind is a morbid jungle of disputation and argument. - J. B. Phillips.
He is a conceited, ignorant person, with a morbid craving for speculations and arguments - Edgar J. Goodspeed.
He is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument - James Moffatt.
As Gould remarked, "This is about as close to invective as the apostle ever came!"[12] Of course, as we have already seen, any overt assault upon the established institution of slavery in ancient society would have been an unqualified disaster for the world; and the sheer insanity of any who might have advocated it shines in this passage. Of course, other forms of senseless argument and disputation were also likewise condemned.
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