18. mockers--In the parallel,
2Pe 3:3,
the same Greek is translated, "scoffers." The word is found
nowhere else in the New Testament. How ALFORD can
deny that
2Pe 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."
JFB.
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