TITUS 1:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 2
“Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”
They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole households by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach — the urgency of silencing (epitomeuein — to muzzle) such teachers reflects their destructive power to disrupt family units and parish structures. The motivation of shameful gain (aischron kerdos) reveals financial exploitation masked as religious teaching, a charge Paul brings against false teachers throughout the epistles. The teaching's content violates apostolic tradition, making it not merely erroneous but corrupting.
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