Verse 10
10. But chiefly Especially, and most signally, does this knowing how to punish apply to the basely abominable characters here named. It was shown toward the people of Sodom, and it will be shown toward the false teachers and their followers. Bloomfield properly sends us to the first chapter of the epistle to the Romans as the best commentary on this passage.
Despise government Rather, Despise lordship. Opinions widely vary as to the proper reference, whether to God, Christ, Satan, angels, or civil magistrates. We think it is to Christ primarily, whom, as 2 Peter 2:1 informs us, the false teachers would deny, and then to all authority, human, angelic, and divine.
Presumptuous Daring men.
Speak evil of dignities Literally, Blaspheme glories; that is, those who exercise the lordship which they despise. Their blasphemy is, then, but the out-speaking of their inward contempt.
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