Tit 1:11 | JFB | STEP | 11. mouths . . . stopped —literally, "muzzled," "bridled" as an unruly beast (compare ). who — Greek, "(seeing that they are) such men as"; or "inasmuch as they" [ELLICOTT ]. subvert . . . houses —"overthrowing" their "faith" ( ). "They are the devil's levers by which he subverts the houses of God" [THEOPHYLACT ]. for filthy lucre

Titus 1:11

11. mouths . . . stopped—literally, "muzzled," "bridled" as an unruly beast (compare Ps 32:9).

who—Greek, "(seeing that they are) such men as"; or "inasmuch as they" [ELLICOTT].

subvert . . . houses—"overthrowing" their "faith" (2Ti 2:18). "They are the devil's levers by which he subverts the houses of God" [THEOPHYLACT].

for filthy lucre— (1Ti 3:3, 8; 6:5).