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

 There are the polluted (bebeloi, G952) . Bebelos is an ugly word with a strange history. It originally meant simply that which can be trodden upon, in contradistinction to that which is sacred to some god and therefore inviolable. It then came to mean profane in opposition to sacred, then the man who profanes the sacred things, who desecrates God's day, disobeys his laws and belittles his worship. The man who is bebelos ( G952) soils everything he touches. 