jude-1:12-kjv,nlt

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:12-13

The next two verses carry on the description of the men in a running fire of epithets and figures, short, sharp, and piercing, corresponding also at certain points with 2 Peter 2:13-17 . These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. What is referred to appears not to be ordinary friendly gatherings or occasions for the interchange of affection, but the well-known agapae, or love-feasts, of the primitive Church, the meals provided in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:12-13

A perfect Church a vain expectation. "These are spots in your feasts of charity," etc. The teaching of our Lord's great parables gives us no warrant to look for a perfect Church till the end. Popular ideas of the purity of the primitive Church are far from being borne out by fact. The New Testament writings themselves, especially the Epistles to the Corinthians, the Pastoral Epistles, Jude, 2 Peter, and the Apocalypse, indicate with the utmost plainness how mixed the early Churches were,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:12-13

A vivid picture of the moral corruption of the ungodly seducers. I. THEIR SELFISH AND SINFUL PERVERSION OF THE CHURCH 'S FELLOWSHIP . "These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves." 1 . They, like sunken rocks, wrecked those who unsuspectingly approached them. 2 . They mingled, without fear or misgiving, in the loving fellowships of the Church. (a) It is not possible in this... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jude 1:12

These are spots - See the notes at 2 Peter 2:13. The word used by Peter, however, is not exactly the same as that used here. Peter uses the word, σπἶλοι spiloi; Jude, σπιλάδες spilades. The word used by Jude means, properly, “a rock” by or in the sea; a cliff, etc. It may either be a rock by the sea, against which vessels may be wrecked, or a hidden rock “in” the sea, on which they may be stranded at an unexpected moment. See Hesyehius and Pollux, as quoted by Wetstein, “in loc.” The idea... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jude 1:12

Judges 1:12. These Ungodly teachers; are spots Blemishes; in your feasts of charity Or love-feasts, as αγαπαις is rendered by many interpreters. Commentators, however, are not agreed what sort of feasts they were. Some think they were those suppers which the first Christians ate previous to their eating the Lord’s supper, of which St. Paul is supposed to have spoken 1 Corinthians 11:21; but which, in consequence of the abuse of them by persons of a character like those here described,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jude 1:1-16

CONTENTS OF THE LETTERCondemnation of the false teachers (1-16)Jude had intended to write about more general matters concerning the Christian faith, but when he heard of the activities of evil teachers he changed his mind. He now feels that it is more important to encourage the Christians to hold firmly to the truth they first heard and to fight against those who want to destroy it. Punishment is certain for those who distort the true teaching of the gospel in order to give themselves the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jude 1:12

spots = hidden rocks, as the texts. Greek. spilas. Only here. The word in Ephesians 5:27 and 2 Peter 2:13 is spilos. feasts of charity . Literally loves, i.e. love-feasts. App-135 . when they feast = feasting. See 2 Peter 2:13 . feeding . Literally pasturing, as a shepherd does his flock. themselves . Making the love-feast an occasion of gratifying the appetite, instead of promoting spiritual edification. Compare Ezekiel 34:2 . whose fruit withereth = in autumnal decay. Greek. ... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jude 1:12

These are they who are hidden rocks in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;Hidden rocks in your love-feasts ... The metaphor appears to be a sunken shoal, or reef, upon which the unwary mariner might suffer shipwreck.Love-feasts ... The love-feast mentioned here "still appears to be one with the eucharistic assembly,"[37] and therefore... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jude 1:12

Jude 1:12. These are spots in your feasts of charity,— The first writer who describes these love-feasts is Tertullian, in his Apologies, ch. 39. Having given an account of the public worship and discipline of the Christians, their great charity and holy lives, and having taken notice of some luxurious suppers among the Heathens, he adds, "The nature of our supper may be known by its name; it is called by a Greek word which signifies love; whatever we spend therein, we look upon it as so much... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jude 1:12

spots — So :-, Greek, “spiloi”; but here the Greek is spilades, which elsewhere, in secular writers, means rocks, namely, on which the Christian love-feasts were in danger of being shipwrecked. The oldest manuscript prefixes the article emphatically, “THE rocks.” The reference to “clouds ... winds ... waves of the sea,” accords with this image of rocks. Vulgate seems to have been misled by the similar sounding word to translate, as English Version, “spots”; compare however, :-, which favors... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:12-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:12-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:12-13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jude 1:12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jude 1:12

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jude 1:1-16

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jude 1:12

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jude 1:12

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jude 1:12

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jude 1:12

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