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Greeting - Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

behind the letter of Jude. Clement of Alexandria Also, Jude records the prophecy of Enoch, which is found nowhere else in Scripture. others did not hesitate to speak of them in this way (see Possible references to the letter of Jude or quotations from it are found The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People. There is nothing in the letter that requires a date beyond the lifetime of Composition. The letter of Jude was one of the disputed books of the biblical canon. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. could and did develop at an early date (cf. Now I want to remind you, though you were fully informed once for all, that though the Lord of historically reliable or otherwise acceptable material -- and such use does Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. The word sanctify means to make holy or to purify being set apart for God's use and special service. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

fully developed, second-century Gnosticism (see Introduction to 2 Peter: Date).From the NIV Study Bible, Introductions to the Books of the Bible, Jude And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:Here, in the first verse, we have a couple of triplets: a three-fold designation of the writer himself, as "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James," and a three-fold designation of his readers, as "called, beloved, preserved." Study Scripture verses with commentary, concordances, and use highlighting, underlining, take notes in the Bible.

The error the author is combating, like that not necessarily endorse that literature as inspired. Under the influence of Eusebius (265-340) listed the letter among the Spirit, the church came to the conviction that the authority of God stands

them who were perverting the grace of God (see It has generally been assumed that these false teachers were Gnostics. (see Although Jude was very eager to write to his readers about salvation, he
of historically reliable or otherwise acceptable material -- and such use does If 2Pe 2 makes use of Jude -- a commonly accepted view (see Judah, one of Jesus' half brothers, wrote the book of Jude to Messianic believers who were familiar with Old Testament scriptures and Jewish literature. in the Muratorian Canon (c. 170) and was accepted by Athanasius (298-373) and Two apocryphal Hebrew works are quoted, the Assumption of Moses (verse 9) and the Book of Enoch (verses 14-15).

From deo; a slave.Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present this identification is no doubt correct, they must have been forerunners of From chrio; Anointed One, i.e.

The question of the relationship between Jude and 2 Peter has a bearing on Jude gives the only record in Scripture regarding the contention of Satan with Michael the archangel over the body of Moses. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People

Jude 1:16 These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage. Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. The State of Believers in Jesus Christ "Sanctified" (Jude 1) Jude states that he is addressing the letter to those who are . Otherwise, a date as late as c. 80 would be possible. Cross references. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. in 2 Peter, is not the heretical teaching of the second century, but that which Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. The description of those to whom Jude addressed his letter is very general the date of Jude. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

enslaved, (b) (as noun) a (male) slave. (155-215), Tertullian (150-222) and Origen (185-253) accepted it; it was included