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Jude 1:12
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10 aBut these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.  
11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way aof Cain, bhave run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished cin the rebellion of Korah.  

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

12 These are1 spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried2 about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;  
13 araging waves of the sea, bfoaming up their own shame; wandering stars cfor whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.  
14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints,
15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the aharsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”  

Apostates Predicted

16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they amouth great swelling words, bflattering people to gain advantage.  
17 aBut you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:  
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Jude 1:12

Hidden rocks (spiladev). Old word for rocks in the sea (covered by the water), as in Homer, here only in N.T. II Peter 2:13 has spiloi.

Love-feasts (agapaiv). Undoubtedly the correct text here, though A C have apataiv as in II Peter 2:14. For disorder at the Lord's Supper (and love-feasts?) see 1Co. 11:17-34. The Gnostics made it worse, so that the love-feasts were discontinued.

When they feast with you (suneuwxoumenoi). See II Peter 2:13 for this very word and form. Masculine gender with outoi oi rather than with the feminine spiladev. Cf. Revelation 11:4. Construction according to sense.

Shepherds that feed themselves (eautouv poimainontev). "Shepherding themselves." Cf. Revelation 7:17 for this use of poimainw. Clouds without water (nefelai anudroi). Nefelh common word for cloud (Matthew 24:30). II Peter 2:17 has phgai anudroi (springs without water) and then omixlai (mists) and elaunomenai (driven) rather than periferomenai here (borne around, whirled around, present passive participle of periferw to bear around), a powerful picture of disappointed hopes.

Autumn trees (dendra fqinopwrina). Late adjective (Aristotle, Polybius, Strabo) from fqinw, to waste away, and opwra, autumn, here only in N.T. For akarpa (without fruit) see II Peter 1:8.

Twice dead (div apoqanonta). Second aorist active participle of apoqnhskw. Fruitless and having died. Having died and also "uprooted" (ekrizwqenta). First aorist passive participle of ekrizow, late compound, to root out, to pluck up by the roots, as in Matthew 13:29.


 
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