Jude 1:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. ”

Jude 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Likewise also - In the same way do these persons defile the flesh, or resemble the inhabitants of Sodom; that is, they practice the same kind of vices. What the apostle says is, that their charac...
Jude 1:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Likewise also these (i) [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, (6) despise (k) dominion, and speak evil of dignities. (i) Who are so stupid and void of reason as if all their fears and wits were asleep...
Jude 1:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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:...
Jude 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

also these . these also. dreamers . in their dreamings. Greek. enupniazomai. See Acts 2:17 . defile . See John 18:28 . despise . Greek. atheteo. See John 12:48 (rejecteth). dominion...
Jude 1:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. Likewise also these. This comparison is not to be pressed too strictly, as though he compared these whom he mentions in all things to be Sodomites, or to the fallen angels, or to the unbel...
Jude 1:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Likewise also these filthy dreamers - He means to say that these false teachers and their follow...
Jude 1:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Likewise also— Nevertheless these dreamers also, &c.] The connection is, "Though there are so many examples upon record of God's just displeasure against the wicked; nevertheless, these dream...
Jude 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Also, х homioos ( G3668 ) mentoi ( G3305 )] - 'in like manner nevertheless' (notw...
Jude 1:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Likewise] RV 'Yet,' i.e. in spite of such a warning. Also these filthy dreamers] RV 'these also in their dreamings,' i.e. their perverted faith and life is like a dream, sentimental and unpra...
Jude 1:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(8-10) Application of these three instances to the libertines who are now provoking God. (8) Likewise also. — Rather, Yet in like manner: i.e. , in spite of these warnings. These ungodly men were...
Jude 1:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 34 RAILING AT DIGNITIES-"THE ASSUMPTION OF MOSES"-ST. JUDE'S USE OF APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE. Jude 1:8-12 ST. JUDE having given three terrible examples of the punishment of gross sin in J...
Jude 1:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Contend Earnestly for the Faith” Jude 1:1-11 Kept is the keynote of this Epistle. It occurs in Jude 1:1 ; Jude 1:6 ; Jude 1:21 , and in another form in Jude 1:24 . Many evil doctrines and...
Jude 1:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chap...
Jude 1:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh ,.... Which may be literally understood, either of the Jewish doctors, who pretended to be interpreters of dreams, as R. Akiba, R. Lazar, and oth...
Jude 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha See on 2 Peter 2:6-9 ; and the cities about them These were Admah and Zeboim. The four are mentioned Deuteronomy 29:23 ; Zoar, the fifth city in the plain of Sodom, w...
Jude 1:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Contumacious Professors. A. D. 66. 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh,...
Jude 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Likewise also; notwithstanding so many judgments of God upon others, which should have kept them from the like sins. These filthy dreamers: either this may be taken properly, and joined to the n...
Jude 1:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Yet in a similar way these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.' Note his reference to their ‘dreamings'. This may simply be indicating their...
Jude 1:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Jude 1:7 . Giving themselves over .—ἐκπορνεύσασαι; the ἐκ denotes the intensity of their lust, which would be gratified at all hazards. Strange flesh .—Other flesh...
Jude 1:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is...
Jude 1:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jude 1:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 3:17 ; 1 Peter 2:17 ; 1 Samuel 10:27 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:8 ; 1 Timothy 1:10 ; 2 Peter 2:10-12 ; Acts 23:5 ; Acts 7:27 ; Acts 7:39 ; Ecclesiastes 10:20 ; Exodus 22:28 ; Genes...
Jude 1:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In like manner these dreamers — Sleeping and dreaming all their lives. Despise authority — Those that are invested with it by Christ, and made by him the overseers of his flock. Rail at dignities —...

Jude 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jude 1:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jude 1:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jude 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jude 1:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jude 1:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jude 1:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jude 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jude 1:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jude 1:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jude 1:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jude 1:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jude 1:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jude 1:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jude 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jude 1:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jude 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jude 1:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jude 1:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jude 1:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jude 1:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jude 1:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jude 1:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes