Jude 1:4

παρεισεδύησαν κ.τ.λ. It is here that the parallelism with 2 Peter begins most obviously. To comment upon the matter common to the two Epistles would be to repeat the notes on 2 Peter. I shall therefore only call attention to selected points.

προγεγραμμένοι. Not “predestinated” but predicted by Enoch (Jude 1:14) and others.

χάριτα μετατιθέντες εἰς�. By making Christian liberty an excuse for licence. Cf. Romans 6:1; 1 Peter 2:16.

ἀρνούμενοι. Perhaps by teaching, as many Gnostics did, that Jesus was a mere man upon whom a heavenly spirit, Christ, descended at His baptism, leaving Him before or at the Passion. (In the apocryphal Gospel of Peter the cry of our Lord on the Cross is given in this form, “My Power, My Power, why hast thou forsaken me?”) Or else by the doctrine that the God of creation (ὁ μόνος δεσπότης) was not the supreme God.