Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men is commanded because they turn people from the truth. When Luther's German New Testament placed Scripture in the hands of the people in their own language, those who chose such human traditions scornfully rejected the Scriptures. Sharp rebuke for this error is given so that believers may be sound in the faith.
It calls professed Christians who have a knowledge of the truth yet conform in spirit to the world and fail to bring truth into the inner sanctuary of the soul to be sanctified by it. This applies especially to workers in God's institutions, where selfish earthly ambition for place and position and money-getting brings the religion of Christ down to a low common level. It requires departing from all iniquity and dishonesty, coming out from the world and separating from its customs, maxims, and influence, and putting on the Lord Jesus Christ and making no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts, at whatever cost or humiliation, in order to inherit eternal life. Those who heed what turns from the truth have defiled and unbelieving minds and consciences to whom nothing is pure. They profess to serve God but deny Him in works, being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate, in contrast to the pure to whom all things are pure.
Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men is commanded because they turn people from the truth. When Luther's German New Testament placed Scripture in the hands of the people in their own language, those who chose such human traditions scornfully rejected the Scriptures. Sharp rebuke for this error is given so that believers may be sound in the faith.
It calls professed Christians who have a knowledge of the truth yet conform in spirit to the world and fail to bring truth into the inner sanctuary of the soul to be sanctified by it. This applies especially to workers in God's institutions, where selfish earthly ambition for place and position and money-getting brings the religion of Christ down to a low common level. It requires departing from all iniquity and dishonesty, coming out from the world and separating from its customs, maxims, and influence, and putting on the Lord Jesus Christ and making no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts, at whatever cost or humiliation, in order to inherit eternal life. Those who heed what turns from the truth have defiled and unbelieving minds and consciences to whom nothing is pure. They profess to serve God but deny Him in works, being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate, in contrast to the pure to whom all things are pure.