Verse 8
8. Dreamers So called for the visionary speculations out of which their profligate and fantastic systems were formed. These visions produced vices of the three following classes.
Defile the flesh Yielding themselves, under a pseudo-religious sanction, to gluttony, debauchery, and unnatural lust.
Despise Literally, abolish, make nothing of, dominion, lordship, authority, human or divine, civil or ecclesiastical.
Speak evil of Literally, blaspheme.
Dignities Literally, glories. The sensualist’s brutal eyes degrade every noble thing they look upon. Every thing glorious they would bring down to their own level. And especially when they would sanctify a flagitious practice with a demoralized theory, all high and low are reversed and subverted. Legitimate lordship they repudiate, and all glories and sanctities of earth and heaven they flaunt and blaspheme with terms and phrases borrowed from their own obscene vocabulary.
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