Judas 1:10

10 Pero éstos maldicen las cosas que no conocen; y las cosas que por naturaleza conocen, se corrompen en ellas como animales sin razón

Judas 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

Jude 1:10

But these speak evil of those things which they know not,
&c.] Which may more particularly refer to dignities, ( Jude 1:8 ) ; either angels, who are little known, and not at all, but by revelation, and yet were blasphemed, or evil spoken of by these men; either by ascribing too much to them, as the creation of the world; or by saying such things of them, as were below, and unworthy of them, as their congress with women or civil magistrates; these men were ignorant of the nature, use, and end, of magistracy and civil government, and so treated it with contempt; or the ministers of the Gospel, whose usefulness was not known, at least not acknowledged by them, and so became the object of their scorn and reproach: or it may refer more generally to the Scriptures, which false teachers are ignorant of, and yet speak evil of; either by denying them to be the Word of God, or by putting false glosses on them; and so to the several parts of the Scriptures, as to the law, the nature, use, and end of which they are not acquainted with; and therefore blaspheme it, by not walking according to it, or by denying it to be of God, and to be good, or by making the observance of it necessary to justification and salvation; and also to the Gospel, the doctrines and ordinances of it, which they speak evil of, despise and reject, not knowing the nature, value, and design of them:

but what they know naturally as brute beasts:
man originally had a large share of natural knowledge, and there is in man still, notwithstanding the fall, by which his knowledge is impaired, a natural knowledge of God, and of things natural, civil, and moral; and there is a sensitive knowledge in man, which he has in common with the brutes, and which is here meant: and such was the brutish sensuality of these men, that

in those things they corrupt themselves;
and act as brute beasts without shame and fear; yea, worse than brute beasts, as in the acts of unnatural lust, mentioned in ( Jude 1:7 ) ; whereby they corrupt both their souls and bodies, and so shall be destroyed, and perish in their corruption.

Judas 1:10 In-Context

8 De la misma manera también estos engañados soñadores ensucian su carne, y menosprecian la Potestad, y vituperan las potestades superiores

9 Pues cuando el Arcángel Miguel contendía con el diablo, disputando sobre el cuerpo de Moisés, no se atrevió a usar de juicio de maldición contra él, antes le dijo: El Señor te reprenda

10 Pero éstos maldicen las cosas que no conocen; y las cosas que por naturaleza conocen, se corrompen en ellas como animales sin razón

11 ¡Ay de ellos! Porque han seguido el camino de Caín, y han venido a parar en el error del premio de Balaam, y perecieron en la contradicción de Coré

12 Estos son manchas en vuestros convites de caridad, que banquetean juntamente, apacentándose a sí mismos sin temor alguno; nubes sin agua, las cuales son llevadas de acá para allá de los vientos; árboles marchitos como en otoño, sin fruto, dos veces muertos y desarraigados