Jude 1:2

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. MERCY - in a time of wretchedness. Therefore mercy stands first: of Christ (). PEACE - in the Holy Spirit (). LOVE - of God (). The three answer to the Trinity. BE MULTIPLIED - in and toward you....

2._Mercy to you. _Mercy means nearly the same as grace in the salutations of Paul. Were any one to wish for a refined distinction, it may be said that grace is properly the effect of mercy; for there is no other reason why God has embraced us in love, but that he pitied our miseries. _Love _may be understood as that of God towards men, as well as that of men towards one another. (189) If it be referred to God, the meaning is, that it might increase towards them, and that the assurance of divine love might be daily more confirmed in their hearts. The other meaning is, however, not unsuitable, that God would kindle and confirm in them mutual love....

1-4 Christians are called out of the world, from the evil spirit and temper of it; called above the world, to higher and better things, to heaven, things unseen and eternal; called from sin to Christ, from vanity to seriousness, from uncleanness to holiness; and this according to the Divine purpose and grace. If sanctified and glorified, all the honour and glory must be ascribed to God, and to him alone. As it is God who begins the work of grace in the souls of men, so it is he who carries it on, and perfects it. Let us not trust in ourselves, nor in our stock of grace already received, but in him, and in him alone. The mercy of God is the spring and fountain of all the good we have or hope for; mercy, not only to the miserable, but to the guilty. Next to mercy is peace, which we have from the sense of having obtained mercy. From peace springs love; Christ's love to us, our love to him,...

Verse Jude 1:2. _MERCY UNTO YOU_] For even the _best_ have no _merit_, and must receive every blessing and grace in the way of _mercy_. _PEACE_] With God and your consciences, _love_ both to God and man, _be multiplied_-be unboundedly increased....

MERCY UNTO YOU, AND PEACE, AND LOVE, BE MULTIPLIED - This is not quite the form of salutation used by the other apostles, but it is one equally expressive of an earnest desire for their welfare. These things are mentioned as the choicest blessings which could be conferred on them: “mercy” - in the pardon of all their sins and acceptance with God; “peace” - with God, with their fellow-men, in their own consciences, and in the prospect of death; and “love” - to God, to the brethren, to all the world. What blessings are there which these do not include?...

MERCY UNTO YOU, AND PEACE AND LOVE BE MULTIPLIED. In this salutation the apostle wishes for a multiplication of "mercy", from God the Father, by whom these persons were sanctified: mercy is a perfection in God; and shows itself in a special manner towards the elect, in the covenant of grace, in the provision of Christ as a Saviour, in the mission of him into this world, in redemption by him, in the forgiveness of sin, in regeneration, and in their whole salvation; and the multiplication of it intends an enlarged view and fresh application of it, which they sometimes stand in need of, as under desertions, when they want the sense and manifestation of it to them; and under temptations and afflictions, when they need sympathy and compassion; and when they fall into sin they stand in need of the fresh discoveries and application of pardoning mercy to them. Moreover, herein is wished for a mu...

Jude 1:1. _Jude._ That is to say Judas, not Iscariot, Jude 1:1. _The servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,_ He does not say, «and brother of our Lord,» for we know that James and Judas were both of them among the Lord's kinsman according to the flesh; but now, after the flesh, knoweth he even Christ no more, but is content and happy to be known as «the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,» Jude 1:1. _To them that are sanctified by God the Father,_ For the decree of election, the setting apart of the chosen is usually ascribed unto God the Father. Jude 1:1. And preserved

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 in Jesus Christ. The latter statement may also be translated “kept for Jesus Christ.” What was true of the believers in Jude's day is true of all believers. Especially comforting is the fact, that, no matter how dark the days may be, however strong the current of evil, those who are “the beloved of God called saints” will be preserved in Jesus Christ and kept for Him as the members of His body, till He comes. He keeps His own. It is the blessed assurance that the believer's keeping rests in His own hands. In the Revelation we see in the glory vision that Christ holds seven stars in His right hand, which is the symbol of the hand of His power with which He keeps His own. Then there is th

The author had intended to write them a pastoral letter, but circumstances have made it necessary for him to write in a different strain and to exhort them to contend earnestly for the faith. These circumstances were the presence in their midst of false brethren whose doom was appointed long ago men denying Jesus Christ, their Master and Lord, by their vicious lives. JUDE 1:3. THE FAITH. UNTO THE SAINTS: this reference to the faith as a fixed and final deposit is said to prove the late date of the epistle: but the same conception of the faith is found in the Pastoral Epistles; _cf._ also Galatians 1:23; Romans 10:8; Ephesians 4:5. th

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, sends this letter to the called who are beloved in God and kept by Jesus Christ. May mercy and peace and love he multiplied to you. Few things tell more about a man than the way in which he speaks of himself; few things are more revealing than the titles by which he wishes to be known. Jude calls himself the servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James. At once this tells us two things about him. (i) Jude was a man well content with the second place. He was not nearly so well known as James; and he is content to be known as the brother of James. In this he was the same as Andrew. Andrew is Simon Peter's brother (John 6:8). He, too, was described by his relationship to a more famous brother. Jude and Andrew might well have been resentful of the brothers in whose shadow they had to live; but both had the great gift of gladly...