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Hidden Dangers in Fellowship
Commentators stress that the false teachers are not merely blemishes but "hidden rocks." This powerful image warns that while participating in sacred fellowship meals, they pose a grave, unseen danger capable of shipwrecking the faith of other believers. Their presence turns a place of supposed safety into a source of peril.
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Jude
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Albert Barnes
On Jude 1:12
18th Century
Theologian
These are spots. See the notes on 2 Peter 2:13.
The word used by Peter, however, is not exactly the same as that used h…
AT Robertson
On Jude 1:12
Hidden rocks (σπιλαδες). Old word for rocks in the sea (covered by the water), as in Homer, here only in N.T. [Reference 2 Peter 2…
Charles Ellicott
On Jude 1:12–19
19th Century
Bishop
A threefold description of the ungodly, corresponding to the three examples just given. The divisions are clearly marked, each section beginning wi…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Jude 1:10–12
19th Century
Preacher
But what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Jude 1:12
Now, with burning eloquence, Jude piles figure upon figure (six of them in all) to describe the errorists.
(1) The false teachers are “blemis…
John Calvin
On Jude 1:12
16th Century
Theologian
These are spots in your feasts of charity. Those who read, “among your charities,” do not, I think, sufficiently explain the true meaning.…
John Gill
On Jude 1:12
17th Century
Pastor
These are spots in your feasts of charity
Or "love". The Jews speak (atwnmyhmd hytdweo) …
Matthew Henry
On Jude 1:8–16
17th Century
Minister
False teachers are dreamers; they greatly defile and grievously wound the soul. These teachers have a disturbed mind and a seditious spirit, forget…