Jude describes the unbelievers as "raging waves of the sea" and "wandering stars." He wanted to warn his readers that these scheming infiltrators not only twist ...

The allusion is either to spots in garments, or in faces, or in sacrifices; or to a sort of earth that defiles; or else to rocks and hollow stones on shores, ...

Twice dead.—Utterly dead, and hence “plucked up by the roots.” Spiritually these men were “twice dead” in having returned, after baptism, to the death of sin.

28 авг. 2024 г. · When people set their expectation on “waterless clouds,” they will continue in their dry and parched condition. When they drink the “water” ...

16 дек. 2021 г. · They offer hope but leave more despair in their path. They are empty and do nothing to irrigate the spiritual needs and thirst in the church. To ...

16 мар. 2008 г. · “These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, ...

They are shepherds feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds, swept along by winds. They are fruitless autumn trees, uprooted and twice dead. 13They are ...

Feeding themselves without fear — Eating, not to suffice nature, but to pamper appetite. It seems the provision was abundant, and they ate to gluttony and riot.

When Jude describes them as "twice dead," he may be refering to the second death (Revelation 20:14; 21:8)—that they will die physically once, and then they will ...