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Dogs (οἱ κύνες)
The A.V. omits the article “the dogs.” Compare Phi 3:2. This was the term of reproach with which the Judaizers stigmatized the Gentiles as impure. In the Mosaic law the word is used to denounce the moral profligacies of heathen worship (Deu 23:18). Compare Mat 15:26. Here the word is used of those whose moral impurity excludes them from the New Jerusalem. “As a term of reproach, the word on the lips of a Jew, signified chiefly impurity; of a Greek, impudence. The herds of dogs which prowl about Eastern cities, without a home and without an owner, feeding on the refuse and filth of the streets, quarreling among themselves, and attacking the passer-by, explain both applications of the image” (Lightfoot, on Phi 3:2).
Sorcerers
See on Rev 9:21, and compare Rev 21:8.
Whoremongers (πόρνοι)
Rev., better, fornicators.
Maketh (ποιῶν)
Or doeth. Compare doeth the truth, Joh 3:21; 1Jo 1:6. See on Joh 3:21.