Jude 1
1 He exhorts them to be constant in the profession of the faith.
4 False teachers are crept in to seduce them, for whose evil doctrine and manners horrible punishment is prepared;
20 whereas the godly, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, and prayers to God, may persevere, and grow in grace, and keep themselves, and recover others out of the snares of those deceivers.
[A. D. 66. A. M. 4070.]
Jude <2455> [Jude.]
[Lebbeus, Thaddeus.]
[Thaddeus.]
a slave <1401> [the servant.]
<37> [them.]
kept <5083> [preserved.]
called <2822> [and called.]
have been <4160> [when.]
common <2839> [common.]
to contend earnestly <1864> [that ye.]
once for all <530> [which.]
saints <40> [the saints.]
have secretly slipped in <3921> [crept.]
<3588> [who.]
ungodly men <765> [ungodly.]
have turned <3346> [turning.]
deny <720> [denying.]
only <3441> [only.]
to remind <5279> [put.]
having saved <4982> [having.]
later <1208> [afterward.]
angels <32> [angels.]
proper domain <746> [first estate. or, principality.]
did ... keep ............. he has kept <5083> [he hath.]
for <1519> [unto.]
So also <5613> [as.]
<2087> [strange. Gr. other.]
are now displayed <4295> [are.]
of eternal <166> [eternal.]
these men <3778> [these.]
defile <3392> [defile.]
reject <114> [despise.]
insult <987> [speak.]
Michael <3413> [Michael.]
It is most probable, that the Apostle took this account concerning Michael, and that of the prophesying of Enoch, from an ancient tradition preserved and well known among the Jews.
archangel <743> [archangel.]
body <4983> [the body.]
he did ... dare <5111> [durst.]
Lord <2962> [The Lord.]
they slander <987> [speak.]
Woe <3759> [Woe.]
they have traveled down <1632> [ran.]
they will certainly perish <622> [perished.]
[Korah.]
dangerous reefs <1526 4694> [are spots.]
love <26> [feasts.]
feeding <4165> [feeding.]
clouds <3507> [clouds.]
<4064> [carried.]
trees <1186> [trees.]
twice <1364> [twice.]
uprooted <1610> [plucked.]
wild <66> [Raging.]
spewing out <1890> [foaming.]
wayward <4107> [wandering.]
for whom <3739> [to whom.]
Enoch <1802> [Enoch.]
Look <2400> [Behold.]
to execute <4160> [execute.]
<1827> [convince.]
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grumblers <1113> [murmurers.]
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folks <4383> [having.]
recall <3415> [remember.]
<2071> [there.]
propelled <4198> [who.]
divisive <592> [who.]
worldly <5591> [sensual.]
[Gr. having.]
by building ... up <2026> [building.]
[Gr. most.]
praying <4336> [praying.]
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in <1722> [in.]
while anticipating <4327> [looking.]
mercy <1656> [the mercy.]
brings <1519> [unto.]
<4982> [save.]
<726> [pulling.]
hating <3404> [hating.]
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without blemish <299> [faultless.]
before <2714> [the presence.]
rejoicing <20> [exceeding.]
only <3441> [the only.]
God <2316> [God.]
glory <1391> [be glory.]
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE OF JUDE. St. Jude, says Origen, has written an Epistle in a few lines indeed, but full of vigorous expressions of heavenly grace.--[Ioudas <\\See definition 2455\\> men <\\See definition 3303\\> egrapsen epistolen oligostichon men <\\See definition 3303\\> pepleromenen de <\\See definition 1161\\> ouraniou charitos erromenon logon.] He briefly and forcibly represents the detestable doctrines and practices of certain false teachers, generally supposed to be the impure Gnostics, Nicolaitans and followers of Simon Magus; and reproves these profligate perverters of sound principles, and patrons of lewdness, with a holy indignation and just severity; while at the same time he exhorts all sound Christians, with genuine apostolic charity, to have tender compassion on these deluded wretches, and to endeavour vigorously to reclaim them from the ways of hell, and pluck them as brands out of the fire. There is a great similarity in sentiment and style between this Epistle and the second chapter of the second Epistle of Peter. Both writers are nearly alike in vehemence and holy indignation against impudence and lewdness, and against those who insidiously undermine chastity, purity, and sound principles.
