jude-1:14-25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jude 1:8-15

The apostle here exhibits a charge against deceivers who were now seducing the disciples of Christ from the profession and practice of his holy religion. He calls them filthy dreamers, forasmuch as delusion is a dream, and the beginning of, and inlet to, all manner of filthiness. Note, Sin is filthiness; it renders men odious and vile in the sight of the most holy God, and makes them (sooner or later, as penitent or as punished to extremity and without resource) vile in their own eyes, and in... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jude 1:16-25

Here, I. The apostle enlarges further on the character of these evil men and seducers: they are murmurers, complainers, etc., Jude 1:16. Observe, A murmuring complaining temper, indulged and expressed, lays men under a very bad character; such are very weak at least, and for the most part very wicked. They murmur against God and his providence, against men and their conduct; they are angry at every thing that happens, and never pleased with their own state and condition in the world, as not... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:12-16

1:12-16 These people are hidden rocks which threaten to wreck your Love Feasts. These are the people who at your feasts revel with their own cliques without a qualm. They have no feeling of responsibility to anyone except themselves. They are clouds which drop no water but are blown past by the wind. They are fruitless trees in autumn's harvest time, twice dead and torn up by the roots. They are wild sea waves, frothing out their own shameless deeds. They are wandering stars and the abyss of... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:12-16

(ii) These wicked men revel in their own cliques and have no feeling of responsibility for anyone except themselves. These two things go together for they both stress their essential selfishness. (a) They revel in their own cliques without a qualm. This is exactly the situation which Paul condemns in First Corinthians. The Love Feast was supposed to be an act of fellowship; and the fellowship was demonstrated by the sharing of all things. Instead of sharing, the wicked men kept to their own... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:12-16

Jude goes on to use a vivid picture of these evil men. "They are like wild sea waves frothing out their own shameless deeds." The picture is this. After a storm, when the waves have been lashing the shore with their frothing spray and their spume, there is always left on the shore a fringe of seaweed and driftwood and all kinds of unsightly litter from the sea. That is always an unlovely scene. But in the case of one sea it is grimmer than in any other. The waters of the Dead Sea can be... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:12-16

In Jude 1:16 Jude sets down three last characteristics of the evil men. (i) They are grumblers, for ever discontented with the life which God has allotted to them. In this picture he uses two words, one which was very familiar to his Jewish readers and one which was very familiar to his Greek readers. (a) The first is goggustes ( Greek #1113 ). (gg in Greek is pronounced ng). The word describes the discontented voices of the murmurers and is the same as is so often used in the Greek... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:17-19

1:17-19 But you, beloved, you must remember the words which were once spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; you must remember that they said to us: "In the last time there will be mockers, whose conduct is governed by their own impious desires." These are the people who set up divisions--fleshly creatures, without the Spirit. Jude points out to his own people that nothing has happened which they might not have expected. The apostles had given warning that in the last times just... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:17-19

(ii) These evil men have a second characteristic. They set up divisions--they are fleshly creatures, without the Spirit. Here is a most significant thought--to set up divisions within the church is always sin. These men set up divisions in two ways. (a) As we have already seen, even at the Love Feasts they had their own little cliques. By their conduct they were steadily destroying fellowship within the church. They were drawing a circle to shut men out instead of drawing a circle to take... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:20-21

1:20-21 But you, beloved, must build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith; you must pray in the Holy Spirit; you must keep yourselves in the love of God; while you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ which will bring you to life eternal. In the previous passage Jude described the characteristics of error, here he describes the characteristics of goodness. (i) The good man builds up his life on the foundation of the most holy faith. That is to say, the life of... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:22-23

1:22-23 Some of them you must argue out of their error, while they are still wavering. Others you must rescue by snatching them out of the fire. Others you must pity and fear at the same time, hating the garment stained by the flesh. Different translators give differing translations of this passage. The reason is that there is much doubt as to what the true Greek text is. We have given the translation which we believe to be nearest to the sense of the passage. Even to the worst heretics,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jude 1:8-15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jude 1:16-25

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:12-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:12-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:12-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:12-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:17-19

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:17-19

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:20-21

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Jude 1:22-23

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