People who laugh at holy matters consider them a joke. Such people have no place for God in their lives. And they have little or no thought for other people.
• Self-interest controls these men’s thoughts and actions. That means that they do not care about anyone else. They only care about themselves.
• They love to believe that they have *influence. Their great desire is for people to think them to be important.
Verse Jude 1:18. _MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME_] See the notes on 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1, c. and particularly 2 Peter 3:2, c., to which Jude see...
BUT, BELOVED, REMEMBER YE ... - There is a striking similarity between these two verses and 2 Peter 3:1. It occurs in the same connection, following the description of the false and dangerous teachers...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE INTRODUCTION Jude 1:1 Jude in his brief introduction speaks of the Christian believers, whom he addresses, as called ones, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved...
JUDE 1:17 F. But remember the words of the apostles, how they warned you that in the last times such men would be found. This passage plainly implies that the writer was not himself an apostle; some c...
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 co...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...
TOLD. said to. SHOULD. shall. MOCKERS. scoffers. See 2 Peter 3:3. IN. The texts read App-104. WHO, &C. walking. UNGODLY LUSTS. lusts of impieties (App-128. IV)....
_there should be mockers in the last time_ The word for "mockers" is found in 2 Peter 3:3, but the general character of those described agrees with the picture drawn in 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1. S...
ΈΛΕΓΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. _Impf._ является обыденным (“они имели обыкновение говорить”), или изображает взаимодействие (“они продолжали говорить время от времени”), ΈΣΟΝΤΑΙ _...
AFTER THEIR OWN UNGODLY LUSTS.— _Ungodly lusts_ may denote such a life of sensuality, as argues that a man has not the fear of God....
_A SPOKEN WARNING OF APOSTASY_ Jude 1:17-19 _Text_ 17. But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18. that they said to you, I...
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. MOCKERS. In 2 Peter 3:3 [ empaiktai (G1703), the same Greek], 'scoffers:' nowhere els...
VERSE 18. HOW THEY TOLD YOU THERE SHOULD BE MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME. This is now what the inspired apostles had declared would occur. In the last time that is, about the time of the destruction of Je...
(12-19) Three-fold description of the ungodly, corresponding to the three examples just given. The divisions are clearly marked, each section beginning with “These are” (Jude 1:12; Jude 1:16; Jude 1:1...
CHAPTER 36 THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO BALAAM: IMPIOUS DISCONTENT AND GREED OF THE LIBERTINES-THE APOSTOLIC WARNING RESPECTING THEM. Jude 1:16. THESE words form the second part of the threefold...
_The Faithful are bidden to call to mind the warnings of the Apostles_. The Apostles warned you repeatedly that in the last time there would arise mockers led away by their own carnal lusts. It is the...
ἐπʼ ἐσχάτου χρόνου ἔσονται ἐμπαῖκται. The parallel in 2 Peter 3:3 is ἐλεύσονται ἐπʼ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐν ἐμπαιγμονῇ ἐμπαῖκται, where see note on the use of the article with ἔσχατος, _etc._ For ἐπί, _...
BEWARE OF THE TOUCH OF THE UNGODLY Jude 1:12 What traps and pitfalls beset us! How many have fallen who had as good or a better chance than we! The angels kept not their first estate; Adam, though cr...
APOSTASY DESCRIBED Jude pleaded with the faithful Christians to remember the teachings of the apostles. Jesus had said those men would relate all of His teachings and commandments (verse 17; Matthew 2...
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. I include the whole of this awful portrait, though made up of different characters, under one view, because they all form but on...
CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chapt...
By _the last time _he means that in which the renewed condition of the Church received a fixed form till the end of the world; and it began at the first coming of Christ. After the usual manner of Scr...
The Epistle of Jude develops the history of the apostasy of Christendom, from the earliest elements that crept into the assembly to corrupt it, down to its judgment at the appearing of our Lord, but a...
HOW THAT THEY TOLD YOU THAT THERE SHOULD BE MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME,.... 2 Peter 3:3....
HOW THAT THEY TOLD YOU THERE SHOULD BE MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME, WHO SHOULD WALK AFTER THEIR OWN UNGODLY LUSTS....
An admonition to holy steadfastness:...
17-23 Sensual men separate from Christ, and his church, and join themselves to the devil, the world, and the flesh, by ungodly and sinful practices. That is infinitely worse than to separate from any...
_Told you; _ whether in their preaching or writing. _Ungodly lusts; _ Greek, lusts of ungodliness; a Hebraism; the vilest lusts....
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Jude 1:18 how G3754 they G3754 told G3004 (G5707) you G5213 be G2071 (G5704) mockers G1703 in...
HAVING EXPOSED THE UNGODLY JUDE NOW TURNS TO THE GODLY AND SEEKS TO ENCOURAGE THEM AND GIVE THEM GUIDANCE (JUDE 1:17). He first reminds God's true people that what is happening is in full accord with...
Jude 1:18. HOW THAT THEY TOLD YOU IN THE LAST TIME THERE SHALL BE MOCKERS; only here and in 2 Peter 3:3, where it is said that they show their quality in relation to the Second Coming of the Lord. WA...
HOW THAT (οτ). Declarative οτ as in verse Jude 1:5. See discussion of 2 Peter 3:3 for differences, no εν εμπαιγμονη here and no των ασεβειων there....
CONTENTS: The apostasy and apostate teachers described. Assurance and comfort for true believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Jude, James, Michael, Moses, Cain, Balaam, Enoch, Adam. CONCLUS...
THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is c...
WHEN THE LAST DAYS COME. See 1 John 2:18 and note. The _last days_ began at Pentecost (Acts 2:16-17 and notes). MEN WILL APPEAR. "The apostles told you many times that these things would happen. Peopl...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:17 Concluding Exhortations. Jude stresses the proper response of believers to false teachers. ⇐...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:12. SPOTS.—Lit. σπιλάδες, rocks; Vulg. _maculæ_ (compare 2 Peter 2:13). “Rocks in your love-feast, causing stumbling and shipwreck.” FEEDING THEMSELVES.—Seeking...
Shall we go to the general epistle of Jude. Jude introduces himself as... A servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James (Jude 1:1), The word servant in Greek is doulos, bondslave of Jesus Christ. B...
1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Timothy 4:2; 2 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 3:3; 2 Timothy 3:13;
Mockers. See on 2 Peter 3:3. Ungodly lusts [ε π ι θ υ μ ι α ς τ ω ν α σ ε β ε ι ω ν]. Lit., lusts of ungodlinesses....