Apostasy in the Last Days (13) Apostates Perish Through Triple Sin [Concluded]
and ran greedily after The Error of Balaam for reward —Jude lib. Literally, And [for] pay they poured out themselves torrentially to the error of Balaam. The root-sin of Balaam was covetousness. Take note of what Peter says of these apostates, first, in what they are in themselves, as, according to the Authorized Version, “Presumptuous are they, self-willed,” (II Pet. 2:10), or, as in the Greek, “darers, self-pleasing” (self-titillating); second, what they are to the church, “spots. . .and...