• Tlmt Jude was married may be Inferred from 1 Go ftf, x>ie Domes of his Krandi-hlldren are said to hmv« b«OD ZoKer and ittnm (Hegesip. ap. Vhil. Sedek, TU r. 10«l
JUDE, EPISTLE OF.—
1. Transmission of the Text.
2. Reception in llie Church.
3. Vocabulary, Style, Literary Indebtedneffi.
4. Relation to 2 Peter.
6. Date of Composition, Authorship.
6. Place of Writing', Destination, Circuaut«ooe<
of Composition.
7. Summary of the Epistle. Literature.
1. Tran-smi.s.sion of the Text.— The authoritiei are(l)MSS (a) Uncial: x.'VBC ('primary' MSS, Hort, Introdurtion, p. 192) KjLoP.^ ; tlie relativa character of all these MSS has been elaborately investigated by B. Weiss, Die Kath. Bricfe, in ' Texte u. Untersuchungen,' viii. 3; (6) Cursive: the chief are 13 ( = 33 evv.), 40, 44 ( = 221 Scriv.), 137 : (2) Versions : («) Latin : vg. (on Old Latin texts see below under 'Fathers'): {!>) Syriac : Harklean; the Syriac Vulgate (Pesliitta) did not contain 2 P, 2 3 Jn, Jude ; in modern editions thev are supplied after a text taken from a Boilleian MS printed by Pococke in 1030 : (c) Egyptian : Bohairic (Memphitic), Sahidic (The- baic) : (d) Ethiopic : (e) Armenian : (3) Fatliers : (") Greek: the chief are Clem. Alex., Origen, Didymus (chiefly Latin trans.), Ephraem (not Syriac works), Cvril Alex., the commentators (Ecumenius and Theophylact, the Fragments in Cramer, Catenn : (b) Latin : Tertulli.an does not quote from, but refers to, Jude (de Cult. Fern. i. 3, ' Enoch apud ludam apostolum testimonium pos- sidet') : his words seem to imply that the Ep. was known to his readers, and therefore current in a Latin translation. There are important quota- tions in Lucifer of Calaris, de non Conv. ctim Hc^r. XV. (p. 33 f. ed. Hartel)— vv.'-»- »-8- "-"■ "-"' ; in Priscillian, Tract, i. iii. v. (pp. 29, .32, 4J, 64, ed. Schepss) — vv. '"•'*'• '^ ; also in the Speculum commonly known by the symbol ra (pp. 4.55, 647, ed. Weihrich) — vv.'- '• '^ These quotations supply relics of pre-Hieronyniic texts. An examination of them shows (1) that Lucif. and m give sub- stantially the same text in w."- ''-, Lucif. being rather fuller and slightly nearer to the Greek ; (2) that Lucif. and Prise, give different texts. Sabatier quotes also from Jerome, Augustine, Vigilius, and Fulgentius small fragments of Latin texts. The whole subject needs further investigation.
The text in several places seems uncert-iin, and 'primitive* errors are prol>able. On vv.l- 1> see WH, Introduction, Xotea on Select Readin(/8, p. 106f. In v. 12 («Jt,; i.V,, «,'... r^tXtiiu n>nMx«'t^i>'t). unless the writer himself after ti changed his construction, the ti appears to be an early insertion (see the two t>i>es of sentencfs in vv.l^ 19). In v. 22 either the first ikiin is intrusive (cf. WH), or (in view of St. Jude's fondness for triplets) «?( it should l>e inserted before rfrCiri (so K). In the latter case the three clauses rise to a climax, and each has its characteristic idea — hopeful compassion, detiporat« effort, com- passion paralyzed by fear of contamination.
2. Reception in the Ciiitrch. —Little or no stress can be laid on supposed coincidences with this Ep. in sub-apostolic writings — E}>. Bam. 2'" (cf. 4»), Jude"- ; Ep. J'nh/r, iii. 2, iv. 2, Jude'-»; Mart. Poltjc. xx. (doxolo''y), Jude***-. The simi- larity, however, of Didmln' ii. 7 (ov ;u<n)ffeit rirm ivOpurroif, aXXA oOs ^v iXiy^eit, irepf Si uv irpoffei'-fp, oDs ii dyarr!<T(i! k.t.X.) to .hide'-''- in thought and still more in form is too striking to be accidental (cf. iv. 1 ^ «i'piur7)i, .hide •) : it need not, however, imply direct lM)rrowing, for on other grounds it Rciiiis likely that the two documents hod their origin within the same circle of Christian thought, and it is conceivable tliat parts of the Didnchf ore ultimiiteli/ the work of the author of the Eiiistle.
There is clear evidence that nt the end of the 2nd anil at the beginning of the 3rd cent, the Ep. wius accepted as authoritative in three imi>ortAnt Churches. (1) Alexandria. Clement quotes it as tha work of .lude in J'ted. ilL H (p. 2UU, ed. Potter),
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