Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. MURMURERS - muttering complains against God's ordinances and ministers in church and state. Compare ; . COMPLAINERS - never satisfied with their lot (: cf. the penalty, ). WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS - (.) The secret of murmuring and complaining is the restless insatiability of desires. GREAT SWELLING WORDS - ...

16._These are murmurers_. They who indulge their depraved lusts, are hard to please, and morose, so that they are never satisfied. Hence it is, that they always murmur and complain, however kindly good men may treat them. (200) He condemns their proud language, because they haughtily made a boast of themselves; but at the same time he shews that they were mean in their disposition, for they were servilely submissive for the sake of gain. And, commonly, this sort of inconsistency is seen in unprincipled men of this kind. When there is no one to check their insolence, or when there is nothing that stands in their way, their pride is intolerable, so that they imperiously arrogate everything to themselves; but they meanly flatter those whom they fear, and from whom they expect some advantage. He takes _persons _as signifying eternal greatness and power....

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 God, Romans 13:1. As to the contest about the body of Moses, it appears that Satan wished to make the place of his burial known to the Israelites, in order to tempt them to worship him, but he was prevented, and vented his rage in desperate blasphemy. This should remind all who dispute never to bring railing charges. Also learn hence, that we ought to defend those whom God owns. It is hard, if not impossible, to find any enemies to the Christian religion, who did not, and do not, live in open or secret contradiction to the principles of natural religion. Such are here compared to brute beasts, though they often boast of themselves as the wisest of mankind. They corrupt themselves in the thi...

Verse Jude 1:16. _THESE ARE MURMURERS_] Grudging and grumbling at all men, and at all things; _complainers_, μεμψιμοιροι, _complainers of_ _their fate_ or _destiny_-finding fault with God and all his providential dispensations, making and governing worlds in their own way; persons whom neither God nor man can please. _WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS_] Taking their wild, disorderly, and impure passions for the rule of their conduct, and not the writings of the prophets and apostles. _GREAT SWELLING WORDS_] υπερογκα. See the explanation of this term in 2 Peter 2:18. _HAVING MEN'S PERSONS IN ADMIRATION_] Time-servers and flatterers; persons who pretend to be _astonished_ at the _greatness,_...

THESE ARE MURMURERS - The word here used does not elsewhere occur, though the word “murmur” is frequent, Matthew 20:11; Luke 5:30; John 6:41, John 6:43, John 6:61; John 7:32; 1 Corinthians 10:10. Compare John 7:12; Acts 6:1

THESE ARE MURMURERS,.... That is, at others; secretly, inwardly, in a muttering way, grunting out their murmurs like swine; to which, for their filthiness and apostasy, false teachers may be filly compared: and their murmurs might be both against God and men; against God, against the being of God, denying, or at least wishing there was no God, and uneasy because there is one; against the perfections of God, particularly his sovereignty over all, his special goodness to some, his wisdom, justice, truth, and faithfulness; against his purposes and decrees, both with respect to things temporal, spiritual, and eternal; against the providence of God and his government of the world, and the unequal distribution of things in it; and especially against the doctrines of free grace, and the ordinances of the Gospel: and not only are they murmurers against God, and all divine things and persons, but...

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 in Jesus Christ. The latter statement may also be translated “kept for Jesus Christ.” What was true of the believers in Jude's day is true of all believers. Especially comforting is the fact, that, no matter how dark the days may be, however strong the current of evil, those who are “the beloved of God called saints” will be preserved in Jesus Christ and kept for Him as the members of His body, till He comes. He keeps His own. It is the blessed assurance that the believer's keeping rests in His own hands. In the Revelation we see in the glory vision that Christ holds seven stars in His right hand, which is the symbol of the hand of His power with which He keeps His own. Then there is th

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 *) and rail at the glorious ones (_cf. mg.)._ Unlike Michael, who in his controversy with the devil did not abuse him, they do not fear to utter abuse upon things which are beyond their knowledge (_i.e._ the Lordship and the glorious ones); and in the carnal things which, like mere animals, they do understand, they are destroyed. They are compared to Cain, to Balaam, and to Korah. They are as dangerous as hidden rocks, selfish as shepherds who only feed themselves, useless as floating, waterless clouds or barren trees, disobedient as wandering stars (which keep not their own principality their sin is like that of the fallen angels and they are doomed to the same fate see on...

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

MURMURERS. Greek. _gongustes._ Only here. Compare John 6:41.Acts 6:1. COMPLAINERS. Greek. _mempsimoiros._ Only here. AFTER. App-104. GREAT SWELLING. See 2 Peter 2:18. HAVING, &c.. admiring persons. BECAUSE OF. Greek. _charin_. See 1 John 3:12. ADVANTAGE. profit. See Romans 3:1....