Verse 10
The things the false teachers did not understand but reviled probably refer to aspects of God’s revealed will that they chose to reject (cf. 1 Corinthians 2:7-16).
"Jude, like his brother James, denounces the sins of the tongue frequently in this short letter." [Note: Richard Wolff, A Commentary on the Epistle of Jude, pp. 91-92. Cf. 1 Corinthians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 2:10-11; 1 Corinthians 2:15-16.]
What the false teachers did understand was the gratification of the flesh, and that would destroy them.
"Their way of life is to allow the instincts they share with the beasts to have their way; their values are fleshly values; their gospel is a gospel of the flesh. Jude describes men who have lost all sense of, and awareness of, spiritual things, and for whom the things demanded by the animal instincts of man are the only realities and the only standard." [Note: Barclay, p. 222.]
"Jude is stating a profound truth in linking these two characteristics together. If a man is persistently blind to spiritual values, deaf to the call of God, and rates self-determination as the highest good, then a time will come when he cannot hear the call he has spurned, but is left to the mercy of the turbulent instincts to which he once turned in search of freedom." [Note: Green, p. 171.]
"Slow suicide (not always slow) is the result of such beastliness." [Note: Williams, 7:14.]
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