These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
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Gill's Exposition
These are murmurers,.... That is, at others; secretly, inwardly, in a muttering way, grunting out their murmurs like swine; to which, for their filthiness and apostasy, false teachers may be filly…
Barnes' Notes
These are murmurers - The word here used does not elsewhere occur, though the word “murmur” is frequent, Mat 20:11; Luk 5:30; Joh 6:41, Joh 6:43, Joh 6:61; Joh 7:32; 1Co 10:10. Compare Joh 7:12; Act…
Adam Clarke
These are murmurers - Grudging and grumbling at all men, and at all things; complainers, μεμψιμοιροι, complainers of their fate or destiny - finding fault with God and all his providential…
Here, I. The apostle enlarges further on the character of these evil men and seducers: they are murmurers, complainers, etc., Jde 1:16. Observe, A murmuring complaining temper, indulged and expressed,…
Cambridge Bible
These are murmurers, complainers The first noun is not found elsewhere in the New Testament, but the use of cognate verbs and nouns in Mat 20:11; Luk 5:30; 1Co 10:10; Act 6:1 and elsewhere, suggests…
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