Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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Gill's Exposition
Backbiters,.... Who more publicly defamed the characters of their neighbours, and hurt their good name, credit and reputation, though behind their backs:
haters of God; some read it, "hated of God";…
Barnes' Notes
Backbiters - Those Who calumniate, slander, or speak ill of those who are absent. Whisperers declare secretly, and with great reserve, the supposed faults of others. Backbiters proclaim them publicly…
Adam Clarke
Backbiters - Καταλαλους, from κατα, against, and λαλεω, I speak; those who speak against others; false accusers, slanderers.
Haters of God - Θεοστυγεις, atheists, contemners of sacred things,…
In this last part of the chapter the apostle applies what he had said particularly to the Gentile world, in which we may observe,
I. The means and helps they had to come to the knowledge of God.…
Cambridge Bible
backbiters Rather, evil speakers, without the special notion of speaking in the absenceof the person attacked.
haters of God The Gr., by formation and classical usage, should rather mean hateful to…
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