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Jude 1:9
Yet Michael, the archangel, when, contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee!
Yet Michael, the archangel, when, contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee!
Verse Jude 1:9. _YET MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL_] Of this personage many things are spoken in the Jewish writings "Rabbi Judah Hakkodesh says: Wherever _Michael_ is said to appear, the glory of the Divine...
YET MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL ... - This verse has given more perplexity to expositors than any other part of the Epistle; and in fact the difficulties in regard to it have been so great that some have be...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE INTRODUCTION Jude 1:1 Jude in his brief introduction speaks of the Christian believers, whom he addresses, as called ones, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved...
The false brethren sin in like manner. In their dreamings, _i.e._ vain conceits (yielding to their own wayward fancies, Chase), they are licentious and rebellious. They despise the Lordship (Jude 1:8...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...
In the same way these, too, with their dreams, defile the flesh, and set at naught the celestial powers, and speak evil of the angelic glories. When the archangel Michael himself was disputing with th...
MICHAEL. See Daniel 10:13. ARCHANGEL. See 1 Thessalonians 4:16. No other angel bears this title. CONTENDING. App-122. DISPUTED. Greek. _dialegomai._ See Acts 17:2. about
For the matter see Introd. p. xli. ΚΡΊΣΙΝ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΊΑΣ = βλάσφημον κρίσιν 2 Peter 2:11 (cf. James 1:25 ἀκροατὴς ἐπιλησμονῆς) not “an accusation of blasphemy,” but cf. Field _ad loc_....
ΑΡΧΆΓΓΕΛΟΣ (G743) архангел. Для иудеев Михаил был высочайшим из ангелов и представителем Бога (SB, 3:831; ABD, 1:253-55; DDD, 150-53). ΔΙΆΒΟΛΟΣ (G1228) дьявол (DDD, 463-73). ΔΙΑΚΡΙΝΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. me...
MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL,— St. Peter, 2 Ephesians 2:11 in reproof of the presumptuous and self-willed, who _speak evil of dignities,_ says, that _angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not r...
_A METAPHORE FROM THE SPIRITUAL WORLD THAT ILLUSTRATES APOSTASY_ Jude 1:9-10 _Text_ 9. But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not brin...
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGE...
VERSE 9. YET MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL. That it may plainly appear why you should ignore the false teachers in their attempts to seduce you from the path marked out for your career as Christians, I call t...
1 Jude's stress on human relationships is very strong, especially as James, his brother, gained the ascendancy among the Circumcision because of his physical relationship to the Lord. Even Peter and J...
With this v. cp. 2 Peter 2:11. St. Jude, however, does not say at all the same thing, and refers to a certain apocryphal Jewish book called 'The Assumption of Moses'; cp. Judges 1:11; Judges 1:14, and...
The *Old Testament does not refer to Michael’s argument with Satan. Deuteronomy 34:6 simply says that God buried his servant in the country called Moab. But nobody knows where. God did not want the *I...
FIGHT FOR THE *FAITH! JUDE _HILDA BRIGHT_ WHAT THIS LETTER IS ABOUT Jude wrote the letter to warn his readers against false teachers. These teachers claimed to be Christians. But they were being...
(8-10) Application of these three instances to the libertines who are now provoking God. (8) LIKEWISE ALSO. — Rather, _Yet in like manner: i.e._, in spite of these warnings. These ungodly men were lik...
CHAPTER 34 RAILING AT DIGNITIES-"THE ASSUMPTION OF MOSES"-ST. JUDE'S USE OF APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE. Jude 1:8 ST. JUDE having given three terrible examples of the punishment of gross sin in Jews, Gent...
ὁ δὲ Μιχαὴλ ὁ ἀρχάγγελος. The term ἀρχ. occurs in the N.T. only here and in 1 Thessalonians 4:16. The names of seven archangels are given in Enoch. The story here narrated is taken from the apocryphal...
_Illustrations of Sin and Judgment Derived from History and from Nature_. The judgment impending Over these men is borne witness to by well-known facts of the past, and may be illustrated from the phe...
“CONTEND EARNESTLY FOR THE FAITH” Jude 1:1 Kept is the keynote of this Epistle. It occurs in Jude 1:1; Jude 1:6; Jude 1:21, and in another form in...
THE APOSTATES IN JUDE'S DAY In verse 8, Jude showed the false teachers had committed sins similar to those committed by those in the Old Testament examples he had previously given. They had committed...
(7) Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. (7) An argument of...
When Michael, &c. We do not find this in any other canonical Scripture, so that St. Jude must either have had it from some tradition among the Jews, or from some writing which he, by the Spirit of God...
CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chapt...
9._Yet Michael the archangel_. Peter gives this argument shorter, and states generally, that angels, far more excellent than men, dare not bring forward a railing judgment. [2 Peter 2:11.] But as this...
The Epistle of Jude develops the history of the apostasy of Christendom, from the earliest elements that crept into the assembly to corrupt it, down to its judgment at the appearing of our Lord, but a...
YET MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL,.... By whom is meant, not a created angel, but an eternal one, the Lord Jesus Christ; as appears from his name Michael, which signifies, "who is as God": and who is as God,...
Jude, verse 9. "He disputed about the body of Moses." The thing referred to is that mentioned Zechariah 3:2. The church of the Jews is called _the body of Moses,_ as the Christian church is called _th...
_Yet Michael_, &c. It does not appear whether St. Jude learned this by any revelation, or from an ancient tradition. It suffices that these things were not only true, but acknowledged to be so by them...
8-16 False teachers are dreamers; they greatly defile and grievously wound the soul. These teachers are of a disturbed mind and a seditious spirit; forgetting that the powers that be, are ordained of...
_Michael the archangel:_ either this is understood of Christ the Prince of angels, who is often in Scripture called an Angel, or of a created angel; and that either: 1. One of the archangels: DANIEL 1...
Jude 1:9 Yet G1161 Michael G3413 archangel G743 G3753 contending G1252 (G5734) devil G1228 disputed G1256 ...
‘But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you”.' But they are be...
A FURTHER INDICATION OF THE HERESY IN WHICH THE GODLESS MEN WERE INVOLVED (JUDE 1:8). Jude now describes in a threefold way the folly of the ‘ungodly persons', and points out that their attitude conf...
Jude 1:9. They do against dignities what even the archangel would not do against Satan. Michael (‘who is like God') was regarded as the guardian angel of the nation of Israel (Daniel 12:1; cp. Daniel...
MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL (ο Μιχαελ ο αρχαγγελος). Michael is mentioned also in Daniel 10:13; Daniel 10:21; Daniel 12:1; Revelation 12:7. Αρ...
Jude 1:9 War in Heaven. I. Contention in the world of spirits. In such passages as these the curtain is for a moment lifted up, and we behold war "war in heaven." The struggle between good and evil i...
CONTENTS: The apostasy and apostate teachers described. Assurance and comfort for true believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Jude, James, Michael, Moses, Cain, Balaam, Enoch, Adam. CONCLUS...
THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is c...
NOT EVEN. "Look at the example of the chief angel Michael. Even he did not use insulting words to condemn the Devil who is a fallen angel! This ought to teach you that no human being should do such a...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:5 The Immoral Character and Resulting Judgment of the False Teachers. Jude uses analogies from the OT and Jewish tradition to declare judgment for the false teachers (see v....
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:8 THESE PEOPLE ALSO refers to the false teachers (see chart). They are led astray by RELYING ON THEIR DREAMS. They follow experiences they claim are from God. Yet thes
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:7. GIVING THEMSELVES OVER.—ἐκπορνεύσασαι; the ἐκ denotes the intensity of their lust, which would be gratified at all hazards. STRANGE FLESH.—Other flesh; _præte...
Shall we go to the general epistle of Jude. Jude introduces himself as... A servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James (Jude 1:1), The word servant in Greek is doulos, bondslave of Jesus Christ. B...
1 Chronicles 12:17; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 2 Peter 2:11;...
Michael the archangel. Here we strike a peculiarity of this epistle which caused its authority to be impugned in very early times, viz., the apparent citations of apocryphal writings. The passages are...
Yet Michael — It does not appear whether St. Jude learned this by any revelation or from ancient tradition. It suffices, that these things were not only true, but acknowledged as such by them to whom...
Isn’t the dispute between Michael the Archangel and the devil based on an apocryphal story? PROBLEM: Jude records an account in which Michael the archangel and the devil have a dispute over the body o...
Our apostle in the preceding verse having charged seducers with contemptuous speaking against governors and government, in this verse he aggravates the impudence and impiety of it, by the carriage of...