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Jude 1:13

Wild waves

(κυματα αγρια). Waves (Matthew 8:24, from κυεω, to swell) wild (from αγρος, field, wild honey Matthew 3:4) like untamed animals of the forest or the sea.Foaming out

(επαφριζοντα). Late and rare present active participle of επαφριζω, used in Moschus for the foaming waves as here. Cf. Isaiah 57:20.Shame

(αισχυνας). Plural "shames" (disgraces). Cf. Philippians 3:19.Wandering stars

(αστερες πλανητα). "Stars wanderers." Πλανητης, old word (from πλαναω), here alone in N.T. Some refer this to comets or shooting stars. See Isaiah 14:12 for an allusion to Babylon as the day-star who fell through pride.For ever

(εις αιωνα). The rest of the relative clause exactly as in 2 Peter 2:17.

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See also Jude 1:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jude 1:13. _RAGING WAVES OF THE SEA, FOAMING OUT THEIR OWN_ _shame_] The same metaphor as in Isaiah 57:20: _The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose_ _waters cast up mir...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    RAGING WAVES OF THE SEA - Compare 2 Peter 2:18. They are like the wild and restless waves of the ocean. The image here seems to be, that they were noisy and bold in their professions, and were as wild...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    RAGING. Wild. Greek. _agrios._ Occurs: Matthew 3:4.Mark 1:6. FOAMING OUT. Greek. _epaphrizo._ Only here. WANDERING. Greek. _planetes._ Only here. IS. hath been. BLACKNESS. Same as "darkness", J

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame_ Image follows on image to paint the shameless enormities of the false teachers. In this we trace an echo of the thought, though not of the words,...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΚΎΜΑΤΑ κ.τ.λ. Cf. Isaiah 57:20. “The wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt” (Mayor). ἘΠΑΦΡΊΖΟΝΤΑ, casting up their own shame, exposing it, as the sea...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΚΎΜΑ (G2949) волна, ΆΓΡΙΟΣ (G66) свирепый, несдержанный, ΘΑΛΆΣΣΗΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΘΆΛΑΣΣΑ (G2281) море. Описательный _gen._ ΈΠΑΦΡΊΖΟΝΤΑPRAES. _act. part. от_ ΈΠΑΦΡΊΖΩ (G1890) пениться, кипеть. Это п...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    RAGING WAVES OF THE SEA,— The word Αγρια, _raging or wild,_ is applied to such herbs or trees as grow up of themselves in the desarts or mountains, by way of opposition to those which are in gardens,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. RAGING - wild. Jude has in mind Isaiah 57:20. SHAME, [ aischunas (G1...

  • Commentary on the Minor Epistles by Caton

    VERSE 13. RAGING WAVES OF THE SEA. Another view of these creatures is presented. When the sea is lashed into fury by the winds, her waves dash and boil into mountains of white foam. These false teache...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:13 shames; (d-10) Not the shame they feel, but the things that are a shame to them. They do not feel it is so; as Philippians 3:19 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RAGING WAVES] RV 'wild waves.' WANDERING STARS] i.e. comets, whose return no man sees....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    κύματα ἄγρια θαλάσσης ἐπαφρίζοντα τὰς ἑαυτῶν αἰσχύνας. _Cf._ Cic. _Ad Hercnn._ iv. 55, _spumans ex ore scelus_. The two former illustrations, the reefs and the clouds, refer to the specious profession...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the (n) blackness of darkness for ever. (n) Most gross darkness....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._Raging waves of the sea_. Why this was added, we may learn more fully from the words of Peter: [2 Peter 2:17 ] it was to shew, that being inflated with pride, they breathed out, or rather cast out...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    RAGING WAVES OF THE SEA,.... False teachers are so called, for their, swelling pride and vanity; which, as it is what prevails in human nature, is a governing vice in such persons, for knowledge witho...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Raging waves of the sea_ Unstable in their doctrine, and turbulent and furious in their tempers and manners, having no command of their irascible passions. _Foaming out their own shame_ By their wick...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    RAGING WAVES OF THE SEA, FOAMING OUT THEIR OWN SHAME; WANDERING STARS, TO WHOM IS RESERVED THE BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS FOREVER. The apostle now applies the lesson of the examples quoted by him to the fa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The character of the seducing teachers:...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    _Raging waves of the sea; _ not only inconstant as water, but unquiet, turbulent, restless, that cannot cease from sin. _Foaming out their own shame; _ that wickedness whereof they should be ashamed;...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jude 1:13 raging G66 waves G2949 sea G2281 up G1890 (G5723) own G1438 shame G152 wandering G4107 stars...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Jude 1:13. They are at once rocks and waves, WILD WAVES OF THE SEA, which ‘cannot rest,' and throw up only ‘mire and dirt' (Isaiah 57:20). FOAMING OUT THEIR OWN SHAME their lusts ‘disgraceful.' WAN...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    LIKE WILD WAVES. Isaiah 57:20. LIKE WANDERING STAR�. "Since they have rejected Jesus Christ and the truth, they are like shooting stars who flash across the sky and are gone forever!" 2 Peter 2:17....

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    WANDERING STARS Wandering stars. Jude 1:13. If you have been out on a dark night, especially about the month of November, you may have seen what looked rather like a rocket, or a series of rockets,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:17; 2 Timothy 3:13; Isaiah 57:20; Jeremiah 5:22; Jeremiah

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Raging [α γ ρ ι α]. Rev., wild, which is better, as implying quality rather than act. Waves, by nature untamed. The act or expression of the nature is given by the next word. Foaming out [ε π α φ ρ ι...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wandering stars — Literally, planets, which shine for a time, but have no light in themselves, and will be soon cast into utter darkness. Thus the apostle illustrates their desperate wickedness by com...

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