ἁγιωτάτῃ ὑμῶν πίστει, ἐν πνεύµατι ἁγίῳ προσευχόµενοι, ἑαυτοὺς ἐν ἀγάπη Θεοῦ τηρήσατε, προσδεχόµενοι τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἲς ζωὴν αἰώνιον and the final doxology, with the passages which I have selected from St. James in p. ccxxviii. The appealing ἀγαπητοί, which is thrice found in St. James, is also thrice repeated in Jude. The warning against Respect of Persons is found in James ii. 1-9 and in Jude ver. 16: that against a murmuring discontented spirit in James i. 13, iv. 1, ν. 9, in Jude vv. 15, 16 ; that against the misuse of the tongue in James iii. 1-10, in Jude ver. 16: the charge to labour for the salvation of others in James v. 19, 20, in Jude wv. 22, 23.
For special details of the style of St. Jude see my larger edition, pp. xxvi-lxvi: one point which may be noticed here is his fondness for triplets. Thus in ver. 2 we find ἔλεος καὶ εἰρήνη καὶ ἀγάπη πληθυνθείη. In
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ver. 4 “the men who were designed for this judgment ” are described
35 ἀσεβεῖς, tiv’ τοῦ Θεοῦ Χάριτα µετατιθέντες eis ἀσέλγειαν, τὸν µόνον 1 2
δεσπότην ἀρνούμενοι. In vv. 3-7 three examples of punishment are ad-
duced, Israel in the wilderness, the angels who sinned, the overthrow of Sodom. In ver. 8 the libertines, σάρκα μὲν µιαίνουσιν, κυριότητα δὲ ἀθετοῦσιν, δόξας δὲ βλασφημοῦσιν. [In vv. 9, 10 we have two couplets οὐκ ἐτόλμησεν-- ἀλλὰ εἶπεν: ὅσα μὲν οὐκ οἴδασιν---βλασφημοῦσιν, ὅσα δὲ--- Φθείρονται.] In ver. 11 we return to the triplet, Cain, Balaam, Korah. [In vv. 12, 13 we have a quintet of metaphors, hidden rocks, rainless clouds, dead trees, turbid waves, falling stars. In ver. 15 again two couplets ποιῆσαι κρίσιν---ἐλέγξαι, περὶ πάντων ὧν ἠσέβησαν- -ὧν ἐλάλησαν.] In ver. 16 we return to the triplet πορευόµενοι-- λαλοῦντες (disguised in the form καὶ τὸ στόµα λαλεῖ bwépoyka)—Oaupdfovtes. So in ver. 17, the word—the Apostles—the Lord. Ver. 18 does not admit of sub- division. Ver. 19 has the triplet ἀποδιορίζοντες, ψυχικοί, πνεῦμα μὴ ἔχοντες. Vv. 20 and 21 have a double triplet, ἐποικοδομοῦντες---προσευ- Χόμενοι-- προσδεχόµενοι and πνεῦμα ἅγιον---Θεός---Ιησοῦς Χριστός. Ver. 22 has the marked triplet οὓς μὲν---οὓς δὲ---οὓς δέ. Ver. 24 has a couplet, φυλάξαι-- στῆσαι. Ver. 25 has a quartet δόξα, µεγαλωσύνη, κράτος, ἐξουσία, followed by the triplet πρὸ παντὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος, καὶ voy, καὶ εἰς πάντας τοὺς αἰῶνας, thus closing with a septet. Compare the stress laid on the fact that Enoch was seventh from Adam, ver, 14. There are some traces of the triplet in St. James, as in i. 14, ἕκαστος πειράζεται ὑπὸ τῆς ἰδίας ἐπιθυμίας-- -εἶτα ἡ ἐπιθυμία τίκτει ἁμαρτίαν, ἡ δὲ ἁμαρτία ἀποκύει θάνατον, ver. 19 ἔστω δὲ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ταχὺς eis τὸ ἀκοῦσαι, βραδὺς εἰς τὸ λαλῆσαι, βραδὺς εἰς ὀργήν, ii. 23 ἐπίστευσεν ᾽Αβραὰμ τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ eis δικαιοσύνην, καὶ φίλος Θεοῦ ἐκλήθη, iii. 6, ἡ γλῶσσα VOL. ν. 15