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Jud 1:8. Μέντοι, indeed) A particle setting forth and comparing the impurity of such ungodly men with Sodom, whence the resemblance of punishment mentioned in Jud 1:7 is plainly seen.-ἐνυπνιαζόμενοι) disturbed with impure and confused dreams, and from their dreams conjecturing the future. The words, they know not, Jud 1:10, are equivalent: Isa 56:10-11, Septuagint, οὐκ ἔγνωσαν-ἐνυπνιαζόμενοι κοίτην.-οὐκ εἰδότες σύνεσιν, πάντες ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτῶν ἐξηκολούθησαν· They are ignorant-sleeping, lying down-they cannot understand-they all look to their own way.[2]-ΚΥΡΙΌΤΗΤΑ, dignities) See 2Pe 2:10, note.
[2] By the one word ἐνυπνιαζόμενοι the character of mere natural men is very graphically described. A man in dreaming seems to himself to be seeing and hearing many things, etc. His lusts are agitated by joy, distress, fear, and the other passions. But he is a stranger to self-control in such a state: but as is an image (phantom) arising out of an image, such is the condition of such men. Hence, though they bring into play all the sinews of reason, they cannot conceive that the sons of light. who are awake and in the daylight, enjoy true liberty.-V. g.