A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

1. They separate themselves, 2. Sensual. 3. Not having the Spirit.

1. [These be they who separate themselves] [Greek or Hebrew], the old English Translation had it thus, these are the Makers of Sects, the word signifieth those which disterminate and pluck up the bounds which God hath set The Apostle meaneth those that without any necessity and warrant from God, cut off themselves from the communion of the Church.

1. [These be they who separate themselves] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the old English Translation had it thus, these are the Makers of Sects, the word signifieth those which disterminate and pluck up the bounds which God hath set The Apostle meaneth those that without any necessity and warrant from God, cut off themselves from the communion of the Church.

2 Sensual, [Greek or Hebrew], animal or Soul-men, men that have nothing but a reasonable Soul which being corrupted, mindeth only the things of the flesh, and so noteth fleshly ⟨p. 491⟩corrupt men Tertullian when leavened with Montanism, called the Orthodox psychicos because of they did not with Montanus, condemn second marriages; the word is notable, it will be some advantage to us to consider it a little more fully: 'Tis three times used in Scripture, as in 1 Cor. 2. 14. the natural man [Greek or Hebrew], who is opposed to [Greek or Hebrew] the spiritual men. So in James 3. 15, the wisdom that is from above is earthly, sensual, [[Greek or Hebrew]] devilish and then in this place, the word (as I said before) properly signifieth those that have a Soul, and [Greek or Hebrew] is elsewhere used for the sensitive Soul, as where the Apostle distinguisheth of body, Soul, and Spirit,