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New Defender's Study Bible Notes

1:14 Jewish fables. “Jewish fables” were an amalgamation of pagan myths and Jewish extra-Biblical traditions, superimposed on the Old Testament Scriptures. The “commandments of men” were ascetic prohibitions and prescriptions that had no Biblical basis, although Pharisaical hypocrisy may have pretended they did.


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