Jude 10-12
1599 Geneva Bible
10 [a]But these speak evil of those things, which they know not: and whatsoever things they know naturally as beasts, which are without reason, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 [b]Woe be unto them: for they have followed the way (A)of Cain, and are cast away by the deceit (B)of Balaam’s wages, and perish in the gainsaying (C)of Korah.
12 [c]These are rocks in your [d]feasts of charity, when they feast with you, without [e]all fear, feeding themselves: (D)clouds they are without water, carried about of winds, corrupt trees and without fruit, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots.
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- Jude 1:10 The conclusion.These men are in a double fault, to wit, both for their rash folly in condemning some, and for their impudent and shameless contempt of that knowledge, which when they had gotten, yet notwithstanding they lived as brute beasts, serving their bellies.
- Jude 1:11 He foretelleth their destruction, because they resemble or show forth Cain’s shameless malice, Balaam’s filthy covetousness, and to be short, Korah’s seditious and ambitious head.
- Jude 1:12 He rebuketh most sharply with many other notes and marks, both their dishonesty or filthiness, and their sauciness, but especially their vain bravery of words, and most vain pride, joining herewithal a most grave and heavy threatening out of a most ancient prophecy of Enoch touching the judgment to come.
- Jude 1:12 The feasts of charity were certain banquets, which the brethren that were members of the Church kept altogether, as Tertullian setteth them forth in his Apology, Chap. 3:9.
- Jude 1:12 Impudently, without all reverence either to God or man.
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