desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

 There are the irreverent (asebeis, G765) . Asebeis is a terrible word. It describes not indifference nor the lapse into sin. It describes "positive and active irreligion," the spirit which defiantly withholds from God that which is his right. It describes human nature "in battle array against God." 