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Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jude 1:8 — KJV
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Jude 1:8
King James Version (KJV)
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Commentary
Commentary on Jude 1:8
Theological / DevotionalLikewise. Or, “yet in like manner,” emphasizing that, in spite of the terrible example of the Sodomites, the false teachers persisted in similar ways.
These filthy dreamers. Literally, “these who are dreaming,” that is, the false teachers. Translators of the KJV supplied the word “filthy” on the basis of the following words, “defile the flesh.” However, the reference to dreaming may be to the prophet-like pose and activities of the teachers.
Defile the flesh. Compare the phrase “walk after the flesh” (2 Peter 2:10).
Despise dominion. Compare on 2 Peter 2:10. Jude uses a different word for “despise” (atheteō, “to nullify,” “to reject”), but the same word, kuriotēs, for “dominion.”
Speak evil of dignities. See on 2 Peter 2:10.
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