But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what - TopicsExpress

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. (Jude 10). The these referred to here are false teachers. The adage here applies, “fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. brute beasts -Jude refers to these false teachers as being in the class of unreasoning animals. in those things they corrupt themselves- could have been translated, “by these things are being brought to ruin”.