“He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,”
he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for disputes about words, that produce envy, dissension, strife, and railing — the false teacher embodies tuphōsis (inflation/pride) and lacks gnōsis (true knowledge). His sickness (nosos) consists of logomachias (word-fighting) producing hostile affects (phthonos, diostaseis, aichorrhegia). Vain argumentation breeds vice.
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