Judas 1:11-13, Judas 1:16, Judas 1:19 NVI

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:12

Spots in your feasts of charity - It appears that these persons, unholy and impure as they were, still continued to have outward fellowship with the Church! This is strange: but it is very likely that their power and influence in that place had swallowed up, or set aside, the power and authority of the real ministers of Christ; a very common case when worldly, time - serving men get into the Church. The feasts of charity, the αγαπαι or love feasts, of which the apostle speaks, were in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:13

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame - The same metaphor as in Isaiah 57:20 ; : The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. These are like the sea in a storm, where the swells are like mountains; the breakers lash the shore, and sound like thunder; and the great deep, stirred up from its very bottom, rolls its muddy, putrid sediment, and deposits it upon the beach. Such were those proud and arrogant boasters, those... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:11

Verse 11 11.Woe unto them. It is a wonder that he inveighs against them so severely, when he had just said that it was not permitted to an angel to bring a railing accusation against Satan. But it was not his purpose to lay down a general rule. He only shewed briefly, by the example of Michael, how intolerable was their madness when they insolently reproached what God honored. It was certainly lawful for Michael to fulminate against Satan his final curse; and we see how vehemently the prophets... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:12

Verse 12 12.These are spots in your feasts of charity. They who read, “among your charities,” do not, as I think, sufficiently explain the true meaning. For he calls those feasts charities, ( ἀγάπαις,) which the faithful had among themselves for the sake of testifying their brotherly unity. Such feasts, he says, were disgraced by impure men, who afterwards fed themselves to an excess; for in these there was the greatest frugality and moderation. It was then not right that these gorgers should... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:13

Verse 13 13.Raging waves of the sea. Why this was added, we may learn more fully from the words of Peter: [2 Peter 2:17 ] it was to shew, that being inflated with pride, they breathed out, or rather cast out the scum of high-flown stuff of words in grandiloquent style. At the same time they brought forth nothing spiritual, their object being on the contrary to make men as stupid as brute animals. Such, as it has been before stated, are the fanatics of our day, who call themselves Libertines.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:1-25

The Letter. I. INTRODUCTION . 1 . Address. 2 . Salutation. "Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied." The first word of salutation points to their being regarded under troublous conditions. The second word of salutation points to their enjoyment of the Divine protection. The third word of salutation points to their being (generally) delighted in by God. This Divine blessing is already realized: let it be realized a hundredfold. II. THE LETTER . 1 . Purpose.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:5-16

Here are reasons for resisting evil men drawn from examples of the Divine anger against others. As a scribe well-instructed, Jude brings from the treasures of Old Testament truth suitable illustrations to inspire believers with becoming earnestness in the work of defending the purity of the Church, and the completeness of Christian doctrine. They are reminded that no special relation to Jehovah—like that which subsisted between Israel and their Redeemer from the slavery of Egypt—will avail... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:8-11

The mutual dependence of belief and life. "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh," etc. Religion is the strength and security of morality. Morality is the outcome and flower of religion. There must be some relation, therefore, between the truth of the religious belief and the purity and elevation of the moral life. A doctrine of God and things Divine which becomes mistaken, imperfect, or corrupt, cannot but affect the conduct which a man allows himself. A life of license is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:11

As in 2 Peter 2:15 , the darkest passages in the Old Testament history are again appealed to. While Peter, however, refers only to a single instance, Jude introduces three, and prefaces the whole by a Woe! such as the Gospels repeatedly attribute to Christ himself. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain; rather, they went in the way of Cain. The phrase is the familiar one for a habitual course of conduct ( Psalms 1:1 ; Acts 9:31 ; Acts 14:16 , etc.). But what is the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:11

Three examples of similar ungodliness. Another triplet, answering to the triplet of Sodom, the evil angels, the unbelieving Israelites. In both triplets there was an outrage against nature, a contempt for Divine sovereignty, a revolt against dignities. I. A DENUNCIATION OF JUDGMENT . "Woe unto them!" 1 . Wickedness has its end in woes. The end of it is "death." 2 . The most fearful woes are those which are spiritual in their nature. No outward calamity is so terrible... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jude 1:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:1-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:5-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:8-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:11

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