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Jude 8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Jude 8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 Similarly, these dreamers[a] nevertheless also defile the flesh, scorn lordship, and revile glorious beings.
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- 8 Dreamers: the writer returns to the false teachers of Jude 4, applying charges from the three examples in Jude 5, 6, 7. This may apply to claims they make for revelations they have received by night (to the author, hallucinations). Defile the flesh: this may mean bodily pollutions from the erotic dreams of sexual license (Jude 7). Lordship…glorious beings: these may reflect the Lord (Jude 5; Jesus, Jude 4) whom they spurn and the angels (Jude 6; cf. note on 2 Pt 2:10, here, as there, literally, “glories”).
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