raging waves of the sea] Gr. wilde. For the waves rore like wilde beasts in the wood. Hereby is fignified, men given to extreme lusts, or passion, or pride, triumphing and insulting over others, as one wave in the sea throweth down another, 2 Peter 2:18. Foming out their own shame] By their vain words revealing their internal corruptions, as the raging sea casteth out dirt and mire, Isaiah 57:20. Philippians 3:19. The Greek word is shames: that which doth most of all shame them. wandering stars] Not constant, like the fixed stars, but passing from one course of religion or life to another, as planets remove: or rather, as blazing stars, which have no regular motion, and quickly vanish away, notwithstanding their glorious shew for a time. to whom is reserved] See on v. 6. the blacknesse of darknesse] The most black darknesse. So hell is described, Matthew 8:12. and Matthew 22:13. for ever] In hell.