Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Timothy 1:7

7 Desiring to be teachers of the law , understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm .

[non-Latin text not transcribed]. This Term lets us know that the Apostle reflecteth upon some who were or had been Iewes, who either pressed the observance of the Law in order to justification, or spent their times in pressing the Traditions of the Elders, and constitutions of the Scribes, as sepimenta legis, Hedges (as they call'd them) to the Divine Law, though not of the Letter of it; upon which there arose a great many questions as insignificant as their Traditions themselves.

Which these vain Preachers spent their time in speaking to, neither understanding the Divine Law, nor the questions themselves started, and spoke unto, yet ambitious to be accounted Teachers of the Law. This vain desire of Reputation, as persons of excellent skil in the Land, was the cause of their erroneous idle Sermons: And their Ignorance is aggravated and inexcusable, in that they with presumptuous boldness assert the things of which they are ignorant.