Jude 1:11

Woe [ο υ α ι]. Often used by our Lord, but never elsewhere except here and in Revelation. The expression in 1 Corinthians 9:16 is different. There the word is not used as an imprecation, but almost as a noun : "Woe is unto me" So Hosea 9:12 (Sept.).

Ran greedily [ε ξ ε χ υ θ η σ α ν]. Lit., were poured out. Rev., ran riotously. A strong expression, indicating a reckless, abandoned devotion of the energies, like the Latin effundi. So Tacitus says of Maecenas, "he was given up to love for Bathyllus;" lit., poured out into love.

After. Better, as Rev., in; as, "in the way of Cain." The error was their sphere of action. Similarly, In the gainsaying [τ η α ν τ ι λ ο γ ι α]. In the practice of gainsaying like Korah's. 'Antilogia is from ajnti, against, and legw, to speak. Hence, literally, contradiction. Gainsay is a literal translation, being compounded of the Anglo - Saxon gegn, which reappears in the German gegen, against, and say.

Korah. Who spake against Moses (Numbers 16:3). The water which Moses brought from the rock at Kadesh was called the water of Meribah (Strife), or, in Septuagint, Greek, the water of contradiction.