Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Jude 1:8
Likewise] RV 'Yet,' i.e. in spite of such a warning. Also these filthy dreamers] RV 'these also in their dreamings,' i.e. their perverted faith and life is like a dream, sentimental and unpractical.
Likewise] RV 'Yet,' i.e. in spite of such a warning. Also these filthy dreamers] RV 'these also in their dreamings,' i.e. their perverted faith and life is like a dream, sentimental and unpractical.
VER. JUDE 1:8 kurio,thta {A} Instead of the more abstract kurio,thta, a few witnesses read the plural kurio,thtaj....
Verse Jude 1:8. _LIKEWISE ALSO THESE_ FILTHY _DREAMERS_] He means to say that these false teachers and their followers were as _unbelieving_ and _disobedient_ as the _Israelites_ in the wilderness, a...
LIKEWISE ALSO - In the same way do these persons defile the flesh, or resemble the inhabitants of Sodom; that is, they practice the same kind of vices. What the apostle says is, that their character r...
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)...
In the same way these, too, with their dreams, defile the flesh, and set at naught the celestial powers, and speak evil of the angelic glories. When the archangel Michael himself was disputing with th...
ALSO THESE. these also. DREAMERS. in their dreamings. Greek. _enupniazomai._ See Acts 2:17. DEFILE. See John 18:28. DESPISE. Greek. _atheteo._ See John 12:48 (rejecteth). DOMINION. lord
ΜΈΝΤΟΙ, however, “in spite of these warnings” (Mayor). ἘΝΥΠΝΙΑΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ. This probably refers to the pretended revelations of the false teachers, who laid claim to a special inspiration. Cf. Deuteronomy...
ΟΜΟΊΩΣ (G3668) _adv._ подобным образом. Это вводит сравнение между примерами, о которых они знали, и духовными лазутчиками, о которых он пишет, ΜΈΝΤΟΙ (G3305) несмотря на это; несмотря на жуткую судь...
LIKEWISE ALSO— _Nevertheless these dreamers also,_ &c.] The connection is, "Though there are so many examples upon record of God's just displeasure against the wicked; nevertheless, these dreamers als...
_TEACHING ON APOSTASY FROM OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY_ Jude 1:5-8 _Text_ 5. Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of t...
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. ALSO, [ homioos (G3668) mentoi (G3305)] - 'in like manner nevertheless' (notwithstanding these w...
VERSE 8. LIKEWISE ALSO THESE FILTHY DREAMERS. Well may the apostle call these false teachers "filthy dreamers." Their thoughts, awake or asleep, are impure. Their punishment shall be as sure as that...
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...
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...
Jude has reminded the false teachers about these terrible examples from the past. But the false teachers refuse to listen. They continue with their wicked behaviour. • The *Greek word for ‘dreamers’...
(8-10) Application of these three instances to the libertines who are now provoking God. (8) LIKEWISE ALSO. — Rather, _Yet in like manner: i.e._, in spite of these warnings. These ungodly men were lik...
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...
_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...
ὁμοίως μέντοι καὶ οὗτοι. Notwithstanding these warnings the libertines go on in similar courses. ἐνυπνιαζόμενοι σάρκα μιαίνουσιν Compare Acts 2:17 (a quotation from Joel 2:28), οἱ πρεσβύτεροι ὑμῶν ἐνυ...
“CONTEND EARNESTLY FOR THE FAITH” Jude 1:1 Kept is the keynote of this Epistle. It occurs in Jude 1:1; Jude 1:6; Jude 1:21, and in another form in...
THE APOSTATES IN JUDE'S DAY In verse 8, Jude showed the false teachers had committed sins similar to those committed by those in the Old Testament examples he had previously given. They had committed...
Likewise also these (i) [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, (6) despise (k) dominion, and speak evil of dignities. (i) Who are so stupid and void of reason as if all their fears and wits were asleep....
In like manner these men (heretics) also defile the flesh with their horrid abominations, despise just dominion, all lawful authority, as well as ecclesiastical as civil; blaspheme majesty, speak ill,...
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...
8._Likewise also these_. This comparison is not to be pressed too strictly, as though he compared these whom he mentions in all things to be Sodomites, or to the fallen angels, or to the unbelieving p...
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...
LIKEWISE ALSO THESE FILTHY DREAMERS DEFILE THE FLESH,.... Which may be literally understood, either of the Jewish doctors, who pretended to be interpreters of dreams, as R. Akiba, R. Lazar, and others...
_Even as Sodom and Gomorrha_ See on 2 Peter 2:6; _and the cities about them_ These were Admah and Zeboim. The four are mentioned Deuteronomy 29:23; Zoar, the fifth city in the plain of Sodom, was spar...
The character of the seducing teachers:...
LIKEWISE ALSO THESE FILTHY DREAMERS DEFILE THE FLESH, DESPISE DOMINION, AND SPEAK EVIL OF DIGNITIES....
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...
_Likewise also; _ notwithstanding so many judgments of God upon others, which should have kept them from the like sins. _These filthy dreamers:_ either this may be taken properly, and joined to the ne...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III " De his et similibus haeresibus existimo Judam prophetice dixisse in epistola: "Similiter quidera hi quoque somniantes" (non enim vigilantes ad veritatem se ap...
Jude 1:8 Likewise G3668 G3305 also G2532 these G3778 dreamers G1797 (G5740) defile G3392 (G5719) flesh...
A FURTHER INDICATION OF THE HERESY IN WHICH THE GODLESS MEN WERE INVOLVED (JUDE 1:8). Jude now describes in a threefold way the folly of the ‘ungodly persons', and points out that their attitude conf...
‘Yet in a similar way these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.' Note his reference to their ‘dreamings'. This may simply be indicating their f...
Jude 1:8. AND YET THESE MEN (Jude 1:4) actually do the same things as the people of Sodom and the fallen angels. IN THEIR DREAMINGS THEY DEFILE THE FLESH, that of others as well as their own; they li...
YET (μεντο). See John 4:27. In spite of these warnings.IN LIKE MANNER (ομοιως). Like the cities of the plain.THESE ALSO (κα ουτο). The false teachers of verse Jude 1:4.IN THEIR DREAMINGS (ενυπ...
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...
IN THE SAME WAY ALSO. "These men show the same spirit of rebellion that these examples show. It is the spirit of the Enemy of Christ which motivates them!" HAVE VISIONS. Since such people claimed to b...
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....
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:8 THESE PEOPLE ALSO refers to the false teachers (see chart). They are led astray by RELYING ON THEIR DREAMS. They follow experiences they claim are from God. Yet thes
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:7. GIVING THEMSELVES OVER.—ἐκπορνεύσασαι; the ἐκ denotes the intensity of their lust, which would be gratified at all hazards. STRANGE FLESH.—Other flesh; _præte...
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 3:17; 1 Peter 2:17; 1 Samuel 10:27; 1 Thessalonians 4:8;...
Yet [μ ε ν τ ο ι]. Not rendered by A. V., but expressing that though they have these fearful examples before them, yet they persist in their sin. Dominion - dignities [κ υ ρ ι ο τ η τ α - δ ο ξ α ς]....
In like manner these dreamers — Sleeping and dreaming all their lives. Despise authority — Those that are invested with it by Christ, and made by him the overseers of his flock. Rail at dignities — Th...
As if our apostle had said, "Notwithstanding these fore-mentioned examples of God's vengeance upon the unclean Sodomites, and others, yet these heretical seducers, whom he calls dreamers, because they...