18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. …
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-25)Here, I. The apostle enlarges further on the character of these evil men and seducers: they are murmurers, complainers , etc., Jude 1:16. Observe, A murmuring complaining temper, indulged and expressed, lays men under a very bad character; such are very weak at least, and for the most part very wicked. They murmur against God and his providence, against men and their conduct; they are angry at eve…
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