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Jude 1:4

Jude 1:4

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

and for whom the law is made, and against whom it lies, . The word here used signifies such who are restless and continually in mischief; who are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, ever casting up mire and dirt: they are always disquieted themselves, and are ever disquieting others; nor do they cease from being so till they are laid in their graves.

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