Jude 1:5

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. (Hebrews 3:16; Hebrews 4:1.) THEREFORE. [ Oun (G3767), C, Lucifer; but A B, Vulgate, read, 'but:' in contrast to the ungodly, Jude 1:4.] THOUGH YE ONCE - `I wish to remind you, as knowing ALL (namely, that I am referring to. So 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Coptic) once for all' [ hapax (G530)]. As already they know all the facts, h...

5._I will therefore put you in remembrance_, or, _remind you_. He either modestly excuses himself, lest he should seem to teach as it were the ignorant things unknown to them; or, indeed, he openly declares in an emphatical manner, (which I approve more of,) that he adduced nothing new or unheard of before, in order that what he was going to say might gain more credit and authority. I only recall, he says, to your mind what you have already learnt. As he ascribes knowledge to them, so he says that they stood in need of warnings, lest they should think that the labor he undertook towards them was superfluous; for the use of God’s word is not only to teach what we could not have otherwise known, but also to rouse us to a serious meditation of those things which we already understand, and not to suffer us to grow torpid in a cold knowledge. Now, the meaning is, that after having been called...

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 Israelites in the wilderness, shows that none ought to presume on their privileges. They had miracles as their daily bread; yet even they perished in unbelief. A great number of the angels were not pleased with the stations God allotted to them; pride was the main and direct cause or occasion of their fall. The fallen angels are kept to the judgment of the great day; and shall fallen men escape it? Surely not. Consider this in due time. The destruction of Sodom is a loud warning to all, to take heed of, and flee from fleshly lusts that war against the soul, 1 Peter 2:11. God is the same holy, just, pure Being now, as then. Stand in awe, therefore, and sin not,...

Verse Jude 1:5. _I WILL THEREFORE PUT YOU IN REMEMBRANCE_] That is, how such persons were _proscribed_, and _condemned_ to bear the punishment due to such crimes. _THOUGH YE ONCE KNEW THIS_] The word απαξ, here translated _once_, has greatly puzzled many interpreters. It has _two_ meanings in the sacred writings, and indeed in the Greek writers also. 1. It signifies _once, one time_, as opposed to _twice_, or _several times_. 2. _Altogether, entirely, perfectly_, interpreted by Suidas αντι τον διολου, ολοσχερως. and of this meaning he produces a proof from Josephus; This appears to be the sense of the word in Hebrews 6:4: τους απαξ φωτισθεντας. _those who were_ FULLY _enlightened_....

I WILL THEREFORE PUT YOU IN REMEMBRANCE - “To show you what must be the doom of such men, I will call certain facts to your recollection, with which you are familiar, respecting the Divine treatment of the wicked in times past.” THOUGH YE ONCE KNEW THIS - That is, you were formerly made acquainted with these things, though they may not be now fresh in your recollection. On the different significations affixed to the word “once” in this place, see Bloomfield, “Crit. Digest, in loc.” The thing which seems to have been in the mind of the apostle was an intention to call to their recollection, as bearing on the case before him, facts with which they had formerly been familiar, and about which there was no doubt. It was the thing which we often endeavor to do in argument - to remind a person of some fact which he once knew very well, and which bears directly on the case....

I WILL THEREFORE PUT YOU IN REMEMBRANCE, THOUGH YE ONCE KNOW THIS,.... The Alexandrian copy, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin version, read, "knew all things"; but rather it is to be restrained by the following instance of, God's vengeance on unbelievers; which with others is produced, to vindicate the divine conduct in the condemnation of the above persons, and to show that that is certain, and may be expected, since God has always dealt thus with such persons; and this they knew by reading of the Scriptures; at least they had known it once, though it might now be forgotten by them; and they had known it once for all; they had been perfectly acquainted with it; which is said, lest the apostle should be thought to write to persons ignorant, and rude in knowledge, and to show that he wrote nothing new and unheard of, and so should have the more weight and influence upon them; and he...

SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...

VER. JUDE 1:5 pa,nta o[ti @o`# ku,rioj a[pax {D} Despite the weighty attestation supporting VIhsou/j (A B 33 81 322 323 424c 665 1241 1739 1881 2298 2344 vg copsa, bo eth Origen Cyril Jerome Bede; o` VIhsou/j 88 915), a majority of the Committee was of the opinion that the reading was difficult to the point of impossibility, and explained its origin in terms of transcriptional oversight (k=c= being taken for i=c=). It was also observed that nowhere else does the author employ VIhsou/j alone, but always VIhsou/j Cristo,j. The unique collocation qeo.j Cristo,j read by î72 (di

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

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 Judgment Day; and the Cities of the Plain, which suffered the punishment of eternal fire. JUDE 1:6. The sin of the angels was twofold: (_a)_ they kept not their own principality, the sphere allotted to them by God (Deuteronomy 32:8, Enoch 18:13, 21:3) the sin of pride or disobedience; (_b)_ they left their proper habitation, they came down to earth (Genesis 6:1 *; Enoch, _passim_) the sin of lust; the fall of the angels through lust is one of the main subjects in Enoch. The tradition as to their punishment is deri