Jude 12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 These are blemishes on your love feasts,[a] as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.(A) 13 They are like wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameless deeds, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.
14 [b]Enoch, of the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied also about them when he said,(B) “Behold, the Lord has come with his countless holy ones
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- 12 Blemishes on your love feasts: or “hidden rocks” or “submerged reefs” (cf. Jude 13). The opponents engaged in scandalous conduct in connection with community gatherings called love feasts (agape meals), which were associated with eucharistic celebrations at certain stages of early Christian practice; cf. 1 Cor 11:18–34 and the note on 2 Pt 2:13.
- 14–15 Cited from the apocryphal Book of Enoch 1:9.
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