Titus 1:10

For. Paul now explains his reason for emphasizing the high moral and intellectual standards that should govern the selection of church leaders. The Cretan church apparently had an above average number of false teachers who accentuated some of the basic weaknesses of the Cretan inhabitants (see on v. 12).

Unruly. See on v. 6. Nominal church members who refused cooperation were factious, opinionated, and insubordinate.

Vain talkers. Compare 1 Tim. 1:6.

Deceivers. Compare 2 Peter 2:3, 18, 19.

Of the circumcision. That is, of Jewish extraction, perhaps akin to the perverted “teachers of the law” (see on 1 Tim. 1:7), who maintained the necessity of circumcision and other rites and ceremonies of the Mosaic law (see Vol. VI, p. 932).