Verse 10. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers. There are many persons who are indisposed to submit to authority, (see the word unruly in Tit 1:6;) many who are vain talkers -- who are more given to talk, than to the duties of practical religion, (see the character of |Talkative,| in the Pilgrim's Progress;) and many who live to deceive others under the mask of religion. They make great pretensions to piety; they are fluent in argument, and they urge their views in a plausible manner.
Specially they of the circumcision. Jews, spoken of here as |of the circumcision| particularly, because they urged the necessity of circumcision in order that men might be saved. See Barnes |Ac 15:1|.
This proves that there were not a few Jews in the island of Crete.
{a} |talkers| Jas 1:26