Verse 9
but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Genealogies... These were the specialty of the Jews, so much so that Christian writers included the genealogy of Jesus in both Matthew and Luke.
The law ... can have reference only to the Mosaic law, thus illuminating Tasker's comment that "The Jewish character of the Cretan heresy is brought out as clearly here as in the earlier reference."[26] Therefore, the period of aggressive Judaism prior to 70 A.D. is indicated as the certain date of this epistle.
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