The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs I
before the flood; and as these continually beheld them, they fell into desire each of the other, and they conceived the act in their mind, and changed themselves into the shape of men, and appeared to them in their congress with their husbands; and the women, having in their minds desire toward their apparitions, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven.[7]
Verse Jude 1:6. _THE ANGELS WHICH KEPT NOT THEIR FIRST ESTATE_] την εαυτωναρχην _Their own principality_. The words may be understood of their having invaded the office or dignity of some others, or...
AND THE ANGELS WHICH KEPT NOT THEIR FIRST ESTATE - A second case denoting that the wicked would be punished. Compare the notes, 2 Peter 2:4. The word rendered “estate” (ἀρχὴν archēn) is, in the mar...
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...
Three examples are given as revealing the doom of such evil-livers: the faithless Israelites in the wilderness, who were destroyed; the fallen angels, who are kept in bonds under darkness until the Ju...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...
It is my purpose to remind you--although you already possess full and final knowledge of all that matters--that, after the Lord had brought the people out of Egypt in safety, he subsequently destroyed...
KEPT. Same as "preserved", Jude 1:1. THEIR FIRST ESTATE. their own principality (App-172.) Compare Ephesians 1:21; Ephesians 3:10; 2
_And the angels which kept not their first estate_ The two last words answer to a Greek term which may either mean "beginning," i.e. their original constitution, the meaning adopted in the English ver...
On the source see Introd. p. xlvii....
ΤΗΡΉΣΑΝΤΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΤΗΡΈΩ (G5083) хранить, стеречь (_см._ Jude 1:1). ΆΡΧ (G746) владение, достоинство, авторитет. Это слово может обозначать либо небесную должность ангелов, либо их госпо...
AND THE ANGELS WHICH KEPT NOT, &C.— St. Peter, 2nd Epistle, 2 Peter 2:4 speaks of the _angels that sinned;_ St. Jude gives it as an account of their sin, that _they kept not their first estate, but le...
_TEACHING ON APOSTASY FROM OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY_ Jude 1:5-8 _Text_ 5. Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of t...
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. (2 Peter 2:4.) KEPT NOT T...
VERSE 6. AND THE ANGELS WHICH KEPT NOT THEIR FIRST ESTATE. Here, it is asserted as a fact, that heavenly messengers at some time in the past had sinned, deliberately left the habitation assigned them...
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...
1:6 keeps (h-18) The Greek perfect tense; signifying here the continuance of what had begun in the past....
FIRST ESTATE] RV 'principality.'...
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...
The Book of Isaiah mentions some proud *angels who refused God’s arrangement for them (Isaiah 24:21-22). God punished them severely. In their case, their terrible fate was to suffer in permanent fire...
(5-7) We now enter upon the main body of the Epistle. Three instances of God’s vengeance: the unbelievers in the wilderness; the impure angels; Sodom and Gomorrha. (5) I WILL THEREFORE PUT YOU IN REME...
CHAPTER 33 DOUBTFUL READINGS AND THE THEORY OF VERBAL INSPIRATION-THREE PALMARY INSTANCES OF DIVINE VENGEANCE UPON GRIEVOUS SIN. Jude 1:5 WITH these three verses the main portion of the Epistle begi...
ἀγγέλους τε τοὺς μὴ τηρήσαντας τὴν ἐαυτῶν ἀρχὴν … εἰς κρίσιν … τετήρηκεν.] _Cf._ Clem. Al. _Adumbr._ “Angelos qui non servaverunt proprium principatum, scilicet quem acceperunt secundum profectum.” Th...
_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...
APOSTASY IN OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY In verse 5, Jude submitted his first bit of evidence to prove evildoers will be condemned. He said he wanted to remind them, though, as the American Standard Version...
(5) 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. (5) The fall of the ange...
Principality. That is, the state in which they were first created, their original dignity. (Challoner) --- Having given themselves over to [7] fornication, or to excessive uncleanness. --- Going after...
"AND THE ANGELS WHICH KEPT NOT THEIR FIRST ESTATE,..." Jude 1:6 Robert Hawker (1753-1827) "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in ever...
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...
6._And the angels_. This is an argument from the greater to the less; for the state of angels is higher than ours; and yet God punished their defection in a dreadful manner. He will not then forgive o...
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...
AND THE ANGELS WHICH KEPT NOT THEIR FIRST ESTATE,.... Or "principality"; that holy, honourable, and happy condition, in which they were created; for they were created in perfect holiness and righteous...
_And the angels which kept not their first estate_ Or, as the clause may be rendered, _their first dignity_, or _principality_, (see on 2 Peter 2:4,) namely, the dignity or principality assigned them;...
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....
Examples of the judgment of God:...
FIRST ESTATE: Or, principality...
5-7 Outward privileges, profession, and apparent conversion, could not secure those from the vengeance of God, who turned aside in unbelief and disobedience. The destruction of the unbelieving Israel...
_Kept not their first estate; _ in which they were created, their original excellency, truth, holiness, purity, 1 THESSALONIANS 8:44, as well as dignity. _But left their own habitation; _ viz. a heave...
Jude 1:6 And G5037 angels G32 did G5083 not G3361 keep G5083 (G5660) their G1438 domain G746 but...
‘And angels who kept not their own original status (or ‘principle rank'), but left their proper habitation, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.' The sec...
Jude 1:5-7. In these verses we have examples of the judgment spoken of in Jude 1:4. It is only necessary, says the writer, that I should remind you of facts with which you are already familiar. You ha...
AND ANGELS (αγγελους δε). The second example in Jude, the fallen angels, accusative case after τετηρηκεν (perfect active indicative of τηρεω, for which verb see 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:7) at the end...
GREAT DAY The judgment of the fallen angels. The "great day" is the day of the Lord. (Isaiah 2:9). As the final judgment upon Satan occurs after the thousand years, and preceding the final judgment ...
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...
REMEMBER THE ANGELS. "Even such beings as angels, who do not have a body of flesh and blood and whom even the false teachers admit were created holy, were punished by God when they sinned!" 2 Peter 2:...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:6 ANGELS WHO DID NOT STAY WITHIN THEIR OWN POSITION OF AUTHORITY. God has KEPT these beings IN ETERNAL CHAINS ever since. Some scholars think this refers to the fall of angels fr
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....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:5. In REMEMBRANCE.—That which we have in mind is often well and wisely brought up forcibly before our minds. Jude 1:6. ANGELS, ETC.—There is nothing in the Old...
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...
2 Peter 2:4; Ephesians 6:12; Hebrews 10:27; John 8:44; Matthew 25:41;...
First estate [α ρ χ η ν]. The word originally signifies beginning, and so frequently in New Testament, mostly in the Gospels, Acts, Hebrews, Catholic Epistles, and Revelation. From this comes a second...
And the angels, who kept not their first dignity — Once assigned them under the Son of God. But voluntarily left their own habitation — Then properly their own, by the free gift of God. He reserved —...
The next example set before them, is that of the apostate angels, who for their rebellion against God were thrown down from heaven, and are reserved as so many prisoners in chains of darkness, to the...