Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jude 1:13
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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
_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,...
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...
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...
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,...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
1:13 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 ....
RAGING WAVES] RV 'wild waves.' WANDERING STARS] i.e. comets, whose return no man sees....
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 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...
(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...
_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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
_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;...
Jude 1:13 raging G66 waves G2949 sea G2281 up G1890 (G5723) own G1438 shame G152 wandering G4107 stars...
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 1:13. 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...
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...
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 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....
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,...
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 1:12 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...
_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...
2 Peter 2:17; 2 Timothy 3:13; Isaiah 57:20; Jeremiah 5:22; Jeremiah
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...
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...