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Angels; good angels, Jud_1:9.
Greater; either greater than these audacious false teachers, or else greater than the forementioned dignities.
In power and might; i.e. greater in their natural strength, and in their dignity.
Bring not railing accusation; use not reviling, reproachful language; the same with speaking evil in the former verse.
Against them; either:
1. Against dignities, 2Pe_2:10; and then the meaning is, that good angels, great and powerful as they are, yet bring not a railing accusation before the Lord against magistrates and princes, but when they have had any thing against them, yet have carried themselves with modesty, and due respect to that dignity in which God had placed such, having a regard to civil government as God’s constitution, and being themselves, at God’s appointment, guardians and keepers, even of wicked kingdoms, as Dan_10:1-21 and Dan_11:1-45. Or:
2. Against themselves, as in the margin; and then the sense is, that angels do not reproach nor revile each other, nay, not the devil himself as appears, Jud_1:9, which place may explain this; and therefore it did ill become these false teachers, who were so much below angels, to contemn, revile, or rail on princes and civil magistrates, who were so much above themselves, and had their authority from God.