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Titus 1:14

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not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

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Verse 14. Jewish fables, and commandments of men. False traditions of the Jewish doctors, which were multiplied at that time. Calvin pretended from hence, that holydays and fasting days, and all ordinances of the Catholic Church were to be rejected as null, because they are the precepts of men. By the same argument must be rejected all laws and commands of princes and civil magistrates, as being the precepts of men. Fine doctrine! He might have remembered what Saint Paul taught, (Romans 13) that all power is from God; and what Christ said, (Lu. 10:16,) “He that hears you, hears me,” and so forth He might have observed that the men the apostle here speaks of, had turned [11] away themselves from the Christian faith. Witham.

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