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Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
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The Delusion of "Dreamers"
Commentators explain that the term "dreamers" likely doesn't refer to literal dreams but to the false teachers' state of spiritual delusion. Their teachings were like fantasies, disconnected from God's reality. This self-deception made them morally numb, allowing them to live in sin without shame, as if in a dream. It's a warning against doctrines born from human imagination instead of God's Word.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Likewise also. In the same way these persons defile the flesh, or resemble the inhabitants of Sodom; that is, they practice the same kind …
Yet (μεντο). See Joh 4:27. In spite of these warnings.
In like manner (ομοιως). Like the cities of the pla…
19th Century
Anglican
Application of these three instances to the libertines who are now provoking God. (8) Likewise also.—Rather, Yet in a similar …
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Baptist
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are…
Jude now links the examples of God’s judgment (vv.5–7) to the false teachers, whom he calls “dreamers” (GK 1965). Though this word might refer to p…
16th Century
Protestant
Likewise also these. This comparison is not to be pressed too strictly, as though he compared those whom he mentions in all things to Sodo…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh Which may be literally understood, either of the Jewish doctors…
False teachers are dreamers; they greatly defile and grievously wound the soul. These teachers have a disturbed mind and a seditious spirit, forget…