Judas 1:23

23 e salvai-os, arrebatando-os do fogo; e de outros tende misericórdia com temor, abominação até a túnica manchada pela carne.

Judas 1:23 Meaning and Commentary

Jude 1:23

And others save with fear
Meaning false teachers, who lead others into errors, and such as give themselves over unto sin, whether teachers or hearers, and who are obstinate and irreclaimable; even such as these, means should be used to save, if possible, by sharp admonitions and severe language; by denouncing the awful judgments of God, which threaten them; by inflicting on them church censures in a terrible manner; by declaring the terrors of the Lord, and of hell, and of everlasting damnation:

pulling [them] out of the fire;
of their soul destroying doctrines, and of their filthy and unnatural lusts, and as it were out of the fire of hell, of which they are in great danger:

hating even the garment spotted, by the flesh;
by which may be meant the conversation of those men, even their filthy conversation, which is to be hated, though their persons are not; but all ways and means should be used to save them; and this is one way, by showing a dislike unto, and a resentment at their wicked way of living, excluding them from church communion for it, and shunning all conversation with them. The allusion is not to garments defiled by profluvious persons, or menstruous women, as some think, but to garments spotted with nocturnal pollutions, or through unnatural lusts, which these persons were addicted to ^F12. It was reckoned very dishonourable for religious persons, in the time of divine service, or on a sabbath day, to have on a garment spotted with any thing; if a priest's garments were spotted, and he performed service in them, that service was not right ^F13; and if a disciple of a wise man had any grease on his garments (on a sabbath day), he was guilty of death ^F14.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Vid. Sueton. in Vita Neronis, c. 28.
F13 T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 65. 2. & Zebachim, fol. 18. 2. & Piske Tosephot in Yoma, art. 9. & Maimon. Cele Hamikdash, c. 8. sect. 4.
F14 T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 114. 1.

Judas 1:23 In-Context

21 conservai-vos no amor de Deus, esperando a misericórdia de nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo para a vida eterna.

22 E apiedai-vos de alguns que estão na dúvida,

23 e salvai-os, arrebatando-os do fogo; e de outros tende misericórdia com temor, abominação até a túnica manchada pela carne.

24 Ora, �quele que é poderoso para vos guardar de tropeçar, e apresentar-vos ante a sua glória imaculados e jubilosos,

25 ao único Deus, nosso Salvador, por Jesus Cristo nosso Senhor, glória, majestade, domínio e poder, antes de todos os séculos, e agora, e para todo o sempre. Amém.