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Selected Verse: Jude 1:18 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jude 1:18 |
King James |
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
mockers--In the parallel, Pe2 3:3, the same Greek is translated, "scoffers." The word is found nowhere else in the New Testament. How ALFORD can deny that Pe2 3:2-3 is referred to (at least in part), I cannot imagine, seeing that Jude quotes the very words of Peter as the words which the apostles used to speak to his (Jude's) readers.
walk after their own ungodly lusts--literally, "after (according to) their own lusts of ungodliness." |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Mockers
See on Pe2 3:3.
Ungodly lusts (ἐπιθυμίας τῶν ἀσεβειῶν)
Lit., lusts of ungodlinesses. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Mockers in the last time - See the notes on Ti1 4:1; Ti2 3:1 (note), etc.; and particularly Pe2 3:2 , Pe2 3:3 (note), etc., to which Jude seems to refer.
The last time. - The conclusion of the Jewish polity. |
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;