But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Ver. 9. But foolish questions] Such as is that of the Papists, whether an ass drinking at the font do drink the water of baptism, and so may be said to be baptized? Est questio digna asinis, saith Melancthon. Such questionists are (as Stapleton saith of Bodin) magni nugatores, great triflers.