ver. Jude 1:12 avga,paij u`mw/n {A}
Instead of avga,paij, which is strongly attested by a B K L most minuscules vg copsa, bo syrh, hgr arm eth Ephraem Lucifer Augustine Palladius al, several witnesses, influenced by the prevailing text of 2 Peter 2:13, read avpa,taij (82 378 460) and two read euvwci,aij (6 224c).
Verse 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...
THESE ARE SPOTS - See the notes at 2 Peter 2:13. The word used by Peter, however, is not exactly the same as that used here. Peter uses the word, σπἶλοι spiloi; Jude, σπιλάδες spilades. The word us...
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...
The false brethren sin in like manner. In their dreamings, _i.e._ vain conceits (yielding to their own wayward fancies, Chase), they are licentious and rebellious. They despise the Lordship (Jude 1:8...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...
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...
SPOTS. hidden rocks, as the texts. Greek. _spilas._ Only here. The word in Ephesians 5:27 and 2 Peter 2:13 is _spilos._ FEASTS OF CHARITY. Literally loves, i.e. love-feasts. App-135. WHEN THEY FEAST....
_These are spots in your feasts of charity_ Here also, as in 2 Peter 2:13, the MSS. vary between "deceits" (ἀπάταις) and "feasts of charity, or _love_" (ἀγάπαις), but the evidence preponderates for th...
ΟὟΤΟΊ ΕἸΣΙΝ recurs again in Jude 1:16; Jude 1:19. As Dr Chase has remarked, it is a favourite phrase in Apocalyptic writings. The seer is shown something and asks what it is? his guide—usually an ange...
ΟΎΤΟΣ (G3778) этот. Та же фраза (“эти”) снова встречается в ст. 16 и 19, это начало описания собственно лжеучителей. В ст. 16 это заявление уравновешивается другим, введенным с помощью союза “но” (Gre...
THESE ARE SPOTS IN YOUR FEASTS OF CHARITY,— The first writer who describes these _love-feasts_ is Tertullian, in his Apologies, ch. 39. Having given an account of the public worship and discipline of...
_METAPHORES FROM NATURE THAT ILLUSTRATE APOSTASY_ Jude 1:12-13 _Text_ 12. These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themsel...
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit...
VERSE 12. THESE ARE SPOTS IN YOUR FEASTS OF CHARITY. The gathering of the saints together at stated times, the duty of Christians. When wicked men meet with you, their excesses are so great they are l...
1 Jude's stress on human relationships is very strong, especially as James, his brother, gained the ascendancy among the Circumcision because of his physical relationship to the Lord. Even Peter and J...
1:12 spots (b-3) This word ordinarily means 'a rock,' and may allude to a sunken rock with the sea over it. This may be the meaning here. autumnal (c-23) Some take it for trees whose fruit withers as...
FEASTS OF CHARITY] RV 'love feasts': cp. 2 Peter 2:13. FEEDING THEMSELVES] RV 'shepherds that feed themselves': cp. Ezekiel 34:8, TREES WHOSE FRUIT WITHERETH] RV 'autumn trees'; they are TWICE DEAD, f...
Jude has compared the false teachers with certain *Old Testament men who refused to obey God’s laws. Now Jude repeats his attack on the false teachers in colourful language. His word-pictures include...
FIGHT FOR THE *FAITH! JUDE _HILDA BRIGHT_ WHAT THIS LETTER IS ABOUT Jude wrote the letter to warn his readers against false teachers. These teachers claimed to be Christians. But they were being...
(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 35 THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO CAIN; THE LIBERTINES AT THE LOVE-FEASTS-THE BOOK OF ENOCH. Jude 1:12 ST. JUDE leaves off comparing the libertines with other sinners - Cain and the Sodomi...
CHAPTER 34 RAILING AT DIGNITIES-"THE ASSUMPTION OF MOSES"-ST. JUDE'S USE OF APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE. Jude 1:8 ST. JUDE having given three terrible examples of the punishment of gross sin in Jews, Gent...
οὖτοί εἰσιν [οἱ] ἐν ταῖς ἀγάπαις ὑμῶν σπιλάδες συνευωχούμενοι. Dr. Chase quotes Zechariah 1:10 f., Revelation 7:14, Enoch xlvi. 3, _Secrets of Enoch_, vii. 3 xviii. 3, xix. 3, etc., for the phrase οὗτ...
_Illustrations of Sin and Judgment Derived from History and from Nature_. The judgment impending Over these men is borne witness to by well-known facts of the past, and may be illustrated from the phe...
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 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NATURAL REALM Like rocks hidden in the water, false teachers were unrecognized trouble ready to sink the unprepared Christian. They acted as if they were shepherds of the...
(10) These are spots in your (l) feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without (m) fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth,...
_These are spots in their banquets; (see 2 Peter ii. 13.) in which they commit unheard of abominations, twice dead, which signifies no more than quite dead, clouds without water, &c. All these metapho...
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...
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,) whi...
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...
THESE ARE SPOTS IN YOUR FEASTS OF CHARITY,.... Or "love". The Jews speak סעודתיה דמהימנותא, "of a feast of faith" b. These here seem to be the Agapae, or love feasts, of the primitive Christians; the...
_These_ Ungodly teachers; _are spots_ Blemishes; _in your feasts of charity_ Or _love-feasts_, as αγαπαις is rendered by many interpreters. Commentators, however, are not agreed what sort of feasts th...
THESE ARE SPOTS IN YOUR FEASTS OF CHARITY, WHEN THEY FEAST WITH YOU, FEEDING THEMSELVES WITHOUT FEAR; CLOUDS THEY ARE WITHOUT WATER, CARRIED ABOUT OF WINDS; TREES WHOSE FRUIT WITHERETH, WITHOUT FRUIT,...
The character of the seducing teachers:...
8-16 False teachers are dreamers; they greatly defile and grievously wound the soul. These teachers are of a disturbed mind and a seditious spirit; forgetting that the powers that be, are ordained of...
_These are spots:_ see 2 PETER 2:13. _In your feasts of charity; _ feasts used among the primitive Christians, to show their unity among themselves, and promote and maintain mutual charity, and for re...
Jude 1:12 These G3778 are G1526 (G5748) spots G4694 in G1722 your G5216 feasts G26 feast G4910 ...
HIS VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THEIR SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY (JUDE 1:12). Jude now vividly pictures their spiritual bankruptcy by means of vivid metaphors, and cites a well known prophecy from the Book of Enoc...
‘These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you; shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit...
Jude 1:12. Here follows a further description of these teachers as set forth in strong figures expressly and earnestly reiterated. THESE ARE THEY WHO ARE SUNKEN ROCKS, seen indeed, but their true natu...
HIDDEN ROCKS (σπιλαδες). Old word for rocks in the sea (covered by the water), as in Homer, here only in N.T. 2 Peter 2:13 has σπιλο.LOVE-FEASTS (αγαπαις). Undoubtedly the correct text here, thoug...
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...
LIKE DIRTY SPOTS. "They are things of shame, like a dirty spot on a tablecloth." IN YOUR FELLOWSHIP MEALS. Paul condemned the _abuse_ of the fellowship meals (1 Corinthians 11:17-22), but not the meal...
HIDDEN ROCKS Hidden rocks. Jude 1:12. What is the greatest treat when you are on holiday at the seaside? Paddling? No; better than that! Building sand castles? No; more exciting than that! Swimming?...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:12 Jude compares the false teachers to HIDDEN REEFS that destroy ships without warning. These opponents of the gospel hide in the church. They share in the LOVE FEASTS (including t...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:5 The Immoral Character and Resulting Judgment of the False Teachers. Jude uses analogies from the OT and Jewish tradition to declare judgment for the false teachers (see v....
_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 Corinthians 11:21; 1 Corinthians 11:22; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:7;...
Spots [σ π ι λ α δ ε ς]. Only here in New Testament. So rendered in A. V., because understood as kindred to spiloi (2 Peter 2:13); but rightly, as Rev., hidden rocks. So Homer, (" Odyssey, "3, 298),...
These are spots — Blemishes. In your feasts of love — Anciently observed in all the churches. Feeding themselves without fear — Without any fear of God, or jealousy over themselves. Twice dead — In si...
Our apostle having set forth these seducers in the foregoing verses by sundry examples, he now comes to set them forth by several similitudes and resemblances. 1. He calls them spots in their love-fe...