the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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2 Peter 2:17
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These false teachers are like springs that have no water. They are like clouds that are blown by a storm. A place in the deepest darkness has been kept for them.
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved.
These are welles without water and cloudes caried about of a tepest to whome the myst of darcknes is reserved for ever.
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.
Those false teachers are like springs without water and clouds blown by a storm. A place in the blackest darkness has been kept for them.
These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved for ever.
These people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm, men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved.
These ben wellis with out watir, and mystis dryuun with `whirlinge wyndys, to whiche the thicke mijst of derknessis is reseruyd.
These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
These people are like dried up water holes and clouds blown by a windstorm. The darkest part of hell is waiting for them.
These [false teachers] are springs without water and mists driven by a tempest, for whom is reserved the gloom of black darkness.
These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.
Waterless springs they are, mists driven by a gust of wind; for them has been reserved the blackest darkness.
These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever].
These men are dried-up springs, mere clouds driven by a storm. Gloomy darkness is reserved for them.Jude 1:12-13;">[xr]
These are wells without water, clouds driven from above, unto whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, persons for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness.
These are welles without water, cloudes that are caried with a tempest, to whom the mist of darkenesse is reserued for euer.
Such people are like wells without water. They are like clouds before a storm. The darkest place below has been kept for them.
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the deepest darkness has been reserved.
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.
These are welles without water, and cloudes caried about with a tempest, to whome the blacke darkenes is reserued for euer.
These men are springs without water, as clouds that are carried with a tempest; the mist of darkness is reserved to them forever.
These, are fountains without water, and mists, by a tempest, driven along, - for whom, the gloom of darkness, hath been reserved;
These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.
These are welles without water, cloudes that are caryed with a tempest, to whom the mist of darknesse is reserued for euer.
These people are like dried-up springs, like clouds blown along by a storm; God has reserved a place for them in the deepest darkness.
These people are springs without water, mists driven by a storm. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.
These are springs without water, clouds being driven by tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept to the ages.
These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;
These are welles without water, & cloudes caried aboute of a tepest: to who ye myst of darknesse is reserued foreuer.
These are wells without water; clouds agitated with a tempest, who are consigned to the obscurity of eternal darkness.
There's nothing to these people—they're dried-up fountains, storm-scattered clouds, headed for a black hole in hell. They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still they're dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction. They promise these newcomers freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for if they're addicted to corruption—and they are—they're enslaved.
These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.
These are wells without water, clouds [fn] carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. [fn]
These people are like dried up dirt tanks. They drift away like the clouds after a storm. They have a place in the forever-dark prepared for them by God.
These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
are wells: Job 6:14-17, Jeremiah 14:3, Hosea 6:4, Jude 1:12, Jude 1:13
clouds: Ephesians 4:14
mist: "The blackness, זןצןע [Strong's G2217], of darkness," darkness itself, says Leigh.
darkness: 2 Peter 2:4, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 22:13, Matthew 25:30, Jude 1:6, Jude 1:13
Reciprocal: Exodus 10:21 - darkness 1 Samuel 2:9 - be silent Job 15:30 - depart Psalms 105:28 - sent Isaiah 64:9 - remember Jeremiah 2:13 - broken cisterns Jeremiah 23:36 - for every Matthew 15:14 - And if Luke 7:24 - A reed John 8:12 - shall not Acts 13:11 - a mist Romans 11:10 - their eyes Philippians 3:19 - end 2 Thessalonians 1:9 - be James 1:6 - he
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So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.
This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him."
He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
These are wells without water,.... Which look large and deep, promise much, and have nothing in them; so these men looked like angels of light, transformed themselves as ministers of righteousness, had a form of godliness, and boasted of their great knowledge; promised great advantages to their followers, but were like deceitful brooks, or dry wells, and so disappointed those that came to them, and attended on them; having nothing but the filth and slime of error and iniquity, being destitute both of the grace of God, comparable to water, and of the truth of heavenly doctrine, which is like the rain that fills the wells, pools, and fountains.
Clouds that are carried with a tempest; these false teachers may be compared to clouds for their number, for many antichrists and false prophets soon came into the world; and for their sudden rise in the churches, into which they crept privily and unawares; and because of the general darkness they spread, for when errors and heresies prevail it is a dark and cloudy day with the churches, a day of gloominess and darkness, of thick darkness, a day of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy; and because of the height of them, especially light clouds, as these are compared to, who are high in their own conceits and imaginations, and think, and give out themselves to be some great persons; and also because of their sudden destruction, which lingers and slumbers not, but comes upon them in a moment, and their glory passes away like the morning cloud: and these may be said to be as clouds "carried with a tempest": of their own lusts and passions, by which they are governed, and are led, and carried away with the force of them, and have no power to resist them, being under the dominion of them, and captives to them; and of Satan's temptations, who works effectually in them, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, and being taken in his snare, are led captive by him at his will: Jude says, "carried about of winds", Judges 1:12, with every wind of false doctrine, like meteors in the air; are never at a point, always unsteady and unsettled, and ready to embrace every new and upstart notion:
to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever; the nature of their punishment is expressed by "darkness", the blackest darkness, the mist of darkness, and which Jude calls blackness of darkness, the same with utter darkness; and which signifies a most forlorn and uncomfortable condition, and is a righteous judgment, and just retaliation upon them who studied to darken counsel by words without knowledge; and the certainty of their punishment is signified by its being "reserved", even as the happiness of the saints, and the safety and sureness of it are represented by an inheritance reserved in heaven: and as God has his treasures, magazines, and stores of grace and mercy, felicity and glory, for his people; so he has his wrath and vengeance reserved, laid up in store with him, and sealed up among his treasures, which he will surely bring forth in his own time: and the duration of this punishment is "for ever"; it is a worm that never dies, a fire that is never quenched, Isaiah 66:24 Mark 9:44; it is everlasting fire and burnings, the smoke of which ascends for ever and ever.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
These are wells without water - Jude 1:12-13 employs several other epithets to describe the same class of persons. The language employed both by Peter and Jude is singularly terse, pointed, and emphatic. Nothing to an oriental mind would be more expressive than to say of professed religious teachers, that they were “wells without water.” It was always a sad disappointment to a traveler in the hot sands of the desert to come to a well where it was expected that water might be found, and to find it dry. It only aggravated the trials of the thirsty and weary traveler. Such were these religious teachers. In a world, not unaptly compared, in regard to its real comforts, to the wastes and sands of the desert, they would only grievously disappoint the expectations of all those who were seeking for the refreshing influences of the truths of the gospel. There are many such teachers in the world.
Clouds that are carried with a tempest - Clouds that are driven about by the wind, and that send down no rain upon the earth. They promise rain, only to be followed by disappointment. Substantially the same idea is conveyed by this as by the previous phrase. “The Arabs compare persons who put on the appearance of virtue, when yet they are destitute of all goodness, to a light cloud which makes a show of rain, and afterward vanishes” - Benson. The sense is this: The cloud, as it rises, promises rain. The expectation of the farmer is excited that the thirsty earth is to be refreshed with needful showers. Instead of this, however, the wind “gets into” the cloud; it is driven about, and no rain falls, or it ends in a destructive tornado which sweeps everything before it. So of these religious teachers. Instruction in regard to the way of salvation was expected from them; but, instead of that, they disappointed the expectations of those who were desirous of knowing the way of life, and their doctrines only tended to destroy.
To whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever - The word rendered “mist” here, (ζόφος zophos,) means properly muskiness, thick gloom, darkness, (see 2 Peter 2:4); and the phrase “mist of darkness” is designed to denote “intense” darkness, or the thickest darkness. It refers undoubtedly to the place of future punishment, which is often represented as a place of intense darkness. See the notes at Matthew 8:12. When it is said that this is “reserved” for them, it means that it is prepared for them, or is kept in a state of readiness to receive them. It is like a jail or penitentiary which is built in anticipation that there will be criminals, and with the expectation that there will be a need for it. So God has constructed the great prison-house of the universe, the world where the wicked are to dwell, with the knowledge that there would be occasion for it; and so he keeps it from age to age that it may be ready to receive the wicked when the sentence of condemnation shall be passed upon them. Compare Matthew 25:41. The word “forever” is a word which denotes properly eternity, (εἰς αἰώνα eis aiōna,) and is such a word as could not have been used if it had been meant that they would not suffer forever. Compare the notes at Matthew 25:46.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 17. These are wells without water — Persons who, by their profession, should furnish the water of life to souls athirst for salvation; but they have not this water; they are teachers without ability to instruct; they are sowers, and have no seed in their basket. Nothing is more cheering in the deserts of the east than to meet with a well of water; and nothing more distressing, when parched with thirst, than to meet with a well that contains no water.
Clouds that are carried with a tempest — In a time of great drought, to see clouds beginning to cover the face of the heavens raises the expectation of rain; but to see these carried off by a sudden tempest is a dreary disappointment. These false teachers were equally as unprofitable as the empty well, or the light, dissipated cloud.
To whom the mist of darkness is reserved — That is, an eternal separation from the presence of God, and the glory of his power. They shall be thrust into outer darkness, Matthew 8:12; into the utmost degrees of misery and despair. False and corrupt teachers will be sent into the lowest hell; and be "the most downcast, underfoot vassals of perdition."
It is scarcely necessary to notice a various reading here, which, though very different in sound, is nearly the same in sense. Instead of νεφελαι, clouds, which is the common reading, καιομιχλαι, and mists, or perhaps more properly thick darkness, from ομου, together, and αχλυς, darkness, is the reading in ABC, sixteen others, Erpen's Arabic, later Syriac, Coptic, AEthiopic, and Vulgate, and several of the fathers. This reading Griesbach has admitted into the text.
