1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Jude 1:11 | Wo to them, for they have gone in the way of *Cain, and have poured out themselves after the **error of Balaam for a reward, ***and have perished in the contradiction of Core: Genesis 4:8. --- ** Numbers 22:23. --- *** Numbers 16:32. | They have imitated, or gone in the way of Cain, who murdered his brother; and they have a mortal hatred against the faithful. They have imitated Balaam{ Ver. 11. Errore Balaam mercede effusi sunt, exechuthesan, decepti sunt simili avaritia et spe mercedis.|} and his covetousness, (see 2 Peter 2:15.) and Core, (Numbers xvi.) who with others opposed Moses; and as these sinners perished, so will they. (Witham) --- Way, etc. Heretics follow the way of Cain, by murdering the souls of their brethren; the way of Balaam by putting a scandal before the people of God, for their own private ends; and the way of Core or Korah, by their opposition to the church governors of divine appointment. (Challoner) |