1 Timothy 1:6

from which Plural from which things, that is the love and its threefold helpers, in the grace, the life, and the creed.

having swerved Lit. -having missed the mark," another of the words peculiar to these epistles, occurring only ch. 1 Timothy 6:21 and 2 Timothy 2:18.

vain jangling empty talking; the word occurs in the adjective form once again, in the still stronger warning against the same class of teachers in Titus 1:10, where they are said to be mostly -of the Circumcision," and to give heed to -Jewish fables." The law of which they are setting themselves up to be teachers is of course the law of Moses, but corrupted by allegorical interpretations and philosophisings which whittled away the keen edge of its moral precepts and blunted all sense of the paramount necessity of holy living.