Jude 1:12

“These are spots in your feasts of charity, etc.] Or “love”. The Jews speak atwnmyhmd hytdwes, “of a feast of faith” f26. These here seem to be the Agapae, or love feasts, of the primitive Christians; the design of which was to maintain and promote brotherly love, from whence they took their name; and to refresh the poor saints, that they might have a full and comfortable meal now and then: their manner of keeping them was this; they began and ended them with prayer and singing; and they observed them with great temperance and frugality; and they were attended with much joy and gladness, and simplicity of heart: but were quickly abused, by judaizing Christians, as observing them in imitation…”

“spots--So Pe2 2:13, Greek, "spiloi"; but here the Greek is spilades, which elsewhere, in secular writers, means rocks, namely, on which the Christian love-feasts were in danger of being shipwrecked. The oldest manuscript prefixes the article emphatically, "THE rocks." The reference to "clouds . . . winds . . . waves of the sea," accords with this image of rocks. Vulgate seems to have been misled by the similar sounding word to translate, as English Version, "spots"; compare however, Jde 1:23, which favors English Version, if the Greek will bear it. Two oldest manuscripts, by the transcriber's effort to make Jude say the same as Peter, read here "deceivings" for "love-feasts," but the…”

“These are spots - See the notes at 2 Peter 2:13. The word used by Peter, however, is not exactly the same as that used here. Peter uses the word, σπἶλοι spiloi; Jude, σπιλάδες spilades. The word used by Jude means, properly, “a rock” by or in the sea; a cliff, etc. It may either be a rock by the sea, against which vessels may be wrecked, or a hidden rock “in” the sea, on which they may be stranded at an unexpected moment. See Hesyehius and Pollux, as quoted by Wetstein, “in loc.” The idea here seems to be, not that they were “spots and blemishes” in their sacred feasts, but that they were like hidden rocks to the mariner. As those rocks were the cause of shipwreck, so these false teachers…”

“These are spots - Blemishes. In your feasts of love - Anciently observed in all the churches. Feeding themselves without fear - Without any fear of God, or jealousy over themselves. Twice dead - In sin, first by nature, and afterwards by apostasy. Plucked up by the roots - And so incapable of ever reviving. Jude 1:13”

“1:12 The early Christians celebrated the Lord’s Supper as part of shared fellowship meals with one another.”

“are spots: Pe2 2:13, Pe2 2:14 feasts: Co1 11:21, Co1 11:22 feeding: Psa 78:29-31; Isa 56:10-12; Eze 34:8, Eze 34:18; Luk 12:19, Luk 12:20, Luk 12:45, Luk 16:19; Luk 21:34; Phi 3:19; Th1 5:6, Th1 5:7; Jam 5:5 clouds: Pro 25:14; Hos 6:4; Pe2 2:17 carried: Eph 4:14 trees: Psa 1:3, Psa 37:2; Mat 13:6, Mat 21:19, Mat 21:20; Mar 4:6, Mar 11:21; Luk 8:6; Joh 15:4-6 twice: Ti1 5:6; Heb 6:4-8; Pe2 2:18-20 plucked: Ch2 7:20; Eze 17:9; Mat 15:13; Mar 11:20 Jude 1:13”