Jude 1:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Even as, х hoos (G5613)]. Alford, '(I wish to remind you, Jude 1:5) that,' etc.

Sodom, etc. - (2 Peter 2:6.)

Giving themselves over to fornication - extraordinarily; i:e., out of the order of nature х ekporneusasai (G1608)]. On 'in like manner to them,' cf. note, Jude 1:6. Compare, on spiritual fornication, Psalms 73:27, end.

Going after strange flesh, х apelthousai (G565)] - departing from the course of nature, and going after that which is unnatural. In later times most enlightened pagans indulged in the sin of Sodom without compunction.

Are set forth - before our eyes.

Suffering - to this present time lying under the ashes of volcanic fires at the Dead sea.

The vengeance, х dikeen (G1349)] - 'righteous retribution.'

Eternal fire - the lasting marks of the fire that consumed the cities irreparably is a type of the eternal fire to which the inhabitants have been consigned. Bengel translates, 'Suffering (the) punishment (which they endure) as a sample of the eternal fire which shall consume the wicked.' Ezekiel 16:53-55, shows that Sodom's punishment, as a nation, is not eternal.

Jude 1:7

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strangeb flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.