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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Jude
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 16,104 words · 11 reading sections
Jude 1:1
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Jude 1:1 INTRODUCTION TO JUDE That this epistle was written by Jude, one of the twelve apostles of Christ, and not by Jude the fifteenth bishop of Jerusalem, who lived in the time of Trojan, a little before Bar Cocab, the false Messiah, as Grotius thought, is evident from …
2,303 wordsSECTION 2Jude 1:2
Jude 1:2 Ver. 2. 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 pr…
351 wordsSECTION 3Jude 1:3
Jude 1:3 Ver. 3. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you,.... The apostle calls the persons he writes unto "beloved"; as they were of God, and by him and other saints; and he signifies his diligence in writing to them: and the subject of his writing was, of the common salvation; which designs either the …
1,056 wordsSECTION 4Jude 1:4
Jude 1:4 Ver. 4. For there are certain men crept in unawares,.... These words contain a reason why the doctrine of faith should be contended for, because of false teachers, who are described as being then upon the spot; the Apostles Peter and Paul had foretold that they would come, but Jude here speaks of them as in b…
1,168 wordsSECTION 5Jude 1:5
Jude 1:5 Ver. 5. 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 vindic…
526 wordsSECTION 6Jude 1:6
Jude 1:6 Ver. 6. 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 righteousness, stood in the relation of sons to God, and were, for the lustre of their nature, comparable to th…
797 wordsSECTION 7Jude 1:7
Jude 1:7 Ver. 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them,.... Admah and Zeboiim, for Zoar was spared. This is a third instance of God's vengeance on sinners; and which, like that of the Israelites, and of the angels, was after great favours had been enjoyed: these places were delightfully situated, and v…
731 wordsSECTION 8Jude 1:8
Jude 1:8 Ver. 8. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh,.... Which may be literally understood, either of the Jewish doctors, who pretended to be interpreters of dreams, as R. Akiba, R. Lazar, and others {n}; or of the false teachers in the apostle's time, and of their filthy dreams, and nocturnal pollut…
506 wordsSECTION 9Jude 1:9
Jude 1:9 Ver. 9. 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, or like unto him, but the Son of God, who is equal with God? and from his character as the archangel, …
1,296 wordsSECTION 10Jude 1:10
Jude 1:10 Ver. 10. But these speak evil of those things which they know not,.... Which may more particularly refer to dignities, Jude 1:8; either angels, who are little known, and not at all, but by revelation, and yet were blasphemed, or evil spoken of by these men; either by ascribing too much to them, as the creati…
383 wordsSECTION 11Jude 1:11
Jude 1:11 Ver. 11. Woe unto them,.... This may be considered as a commiseration of their case, or as a denunciation of deserved punishment, or as a prediction of what would befall them. The Arabic version prefaces these words with an address to the saints, "O my beloved": that what was about to be said might be attend…
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.