ACC ~ Jude 1 v8

IN THEIR DREAMINGS. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: These deluded people imagine that their lusts and terrible desires are good and pay no attention to what is truly good and beyond all good. ADUMBRATIONS.

NOXIOUS TEACHINGS. ANDREAS: Jude calls them “dreamers” because they have no idea of the truth but fantasize as if they were dreaming and concoct doctrines full of impiety. They say that our flesh, that is to say, our body, is the work of the devil and blaspheme the lordship and glory of the Holy Trinity, accepting the Father as the eternal and uncreated One but reducing the Son and the Holy Spirit to the status of creatures made in time. These are the noxious teachings of Marcion and Arius, which explains why the apostle expresses himself so sharply against them.They do not confess that there is one God, Maker of both the visible and the invisible worlds, but they deify matter and darkness and detest the flesh. Jude condemns these people, even to the point of saying that they have polluted their mind and their entire being. CATENA.

LIKE SLEEPWALKERS. OECUMENIUS: It is worth noting here that Jude does not spare us the details of these people’s sin, which he attributes to the fact that they are deluded by a kind of dreaming. Those who do such things have lost their powers of reason and act as if they were sleepwalkers, stumbling from one thing to another. COMMENTARY ON JUDE.

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