Jude 1:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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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. 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. phthinoporinos. Onlyhere.

without fruit. Greek. akarpos. Elsewhere translated "unfruitful".

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Jude 1:12

12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;