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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Peter 2:17 - 2:17
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(Jud 1:12, Jud 1:13.)
wells - “clouds” in Jude; both promising (compare 2Pe 2:19) water, but yielding none; so their “great swelling words” are found on trial to be but “vanity” (2Pe 2:18).
clouds - The oldest manuscripts and versions read, “mists,” dark, and not transparent and bright as “clouds” often are, whence the latter term is applied sometimes to the saints; fit emblem of the children of darkness. “Clouds” is a transcriber’s correction from Jud 1:12, where it is appropriate, “clouds ... without water” (promising what they do not perform); but not here, “mists driven along by a tempest.”
mist - blackness; “the chilling horror accompanying darkness” [Bengel].