Jude - 1:18



18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

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Explanation and meaning of Jude 1:18.

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How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Who told you, that in the last time there should come mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses.
that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.
that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,
how they declared to you, "In the last times there shall be scoffers, obeying only their own ungodly passions."
Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.
who declared to you that, in the end time, there would arrive mockers, walking according to their own desires, in impieties.
how they used to say to you – 'As time draws to an end, there will be scoffers, who will be led by their godless passions.'
Quod vobis dixerunt, ultimo tempore futuros (vel, venturos) derisores, qui secundum concupiscentias tias suarum impietatum ambularent.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Mockers in the last time - See the notes on 1-Timothy 4:1; 2-Timothy 3:1 (note), etc.; and particularly 2-Peter 3:2 , 2-Peter 3:3 (note), etc., to which Jude seems to refer.
The last time. - The conclusion of the Jewish polity.

How that they told you that there should be mockers in the last time,.... See Gill on 2-Peter 3:3.

mockers--In the parallel, 2-Peter 3:3, the same Greek is translated, "scoffers." The word is found nowhere else in the New Testament. How ALFORD can deny that 2-Peter 3:2-3 is referred to (at least in part), I cannot imagine, seeing that Jude quotes the very words of Peter as the words which the apostles used to speak to his (Jude's) readers.
walk after their own ungodly lusts--literally, "after (according to) their own lusts of ungodliness."

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