Jude 1:18

New Testament Epistle (General) ASV (1901)

What does Jude 1:18 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.
Jude 1:18 — American Standard Version

Context — Jude 1

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
18That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“How that they told you that there should be mockers in the last time, etc.] (See Gill on “<610303>2 Peter 3:3”).”
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“mockers--In the parallel, Pe2 3:3, the same Greek is translated, "scoffers." The word is found nowhere else in the New Testament. How ALFORD can deny that Pe2 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."”
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Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“But, beloved, remember ye ... - There is a striking similarity between these two verses and 2 Peter 3:1-3. It occurs in the same connection, following the description of the false and dangerous teachers against whom the apostle would guard them, and couched almost in the same words. See it explained in the notes at the similar passage in Peter. When Jude (Jude 1:17) entreats them to remember the words which were spoken by “the apostles,” it is not necessarily to be inferred that he was not himself an apostle, for he is speaking of what was past, and there might have been a special reason why he should refer to something that they would distinctly remember which had been spoken by the “other”…”
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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Tyndale Open Study Notes · Modern study notes
“1:18 Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron, with Gath and Ashdod, later made up the five main cities of the Philistines (3:3). 1:18 in the last times: The coming of Jesus as Messiah inaugurated the last stage of God’s plan, when the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies about the last days began to take place. For this reason, Jude applies the apostles’ prophecy about the last times to the immediate crisis created by the false teachers (1:19).”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“there: Act 20:29; Ti1 4:1, Ti1 4:2; Ti2 3:1-5, Ti2 3:13, Ti2 4:3; Pe2 2:1, Pe2 3:3 who: Jde 1:16; Psa 14:1, Psa 14:2 Jude 1:19”
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