Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jude 1:17
By the apostles — He does not exempt himself from the number of apostles. For in the next verse he says, they told you, not us.
By the apostles — He does not exempt himself from the number of apostles. For in the next verse he says, they told you, not us.
Verse Jude 1:17. _REMEMBER - THE WORDS_] Instead of following those teachers and their corrupt doctrine, remember what Christ and his apostles have said; for they foretold the coming of such false tea...
BUT, BELOVED, REMEMBER YE ... - There is a striking similarity between these two verses and 2 Peter 3:1. It occurs in the same connection, following the description of the false and dangerous teachers...
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...
JUDE 1:17 F. But remember the words of the apostles, how they warned you that in the last times such men would be found. This passage plainly implies that the writer was not himself an apostle; some c...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...
But you, beloved, you must remember the words which were once spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; you must remember that they said to us: "In the last time there will be mockers, whose co...
WORDS. Greek. _rhema,_ See Mark 9:32. WERE. have been. APOSTLES. App-189. LORD. App-98....
_remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles_ The passage stands in close parallelism with 2 Peter 3:2, but differs in speaking only of "apostles" and not of prophets, and apparentl...
We find several examples in N.T. (e.g. Acts 20:29; 1 Timothy 4:1; Joshua 3:1 etc.) of predictions of false teaching and wickedness in the Christian body, but not of mockers, as here. Jude need not be...
ΜΝΉΣΘΗΤΕ _aor. imper. pass. от_ ΜΙΜΝΉΣΚΟΜΑΙ (G3403) напоминать, вызывать в памяти, ΠΡΟΕΙΡΗΜΈΝΩΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΠΡΟΛΈΓΩ (G4302) говорить заранее, предсказывать, предвидеть событие (Kelly). _Pe...
THE WORDS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BEFORE OF THE APOSTLES, &C.— Many eminent writers believe that the apostles hada meeting upon the great case of the new false teachers, and that they gave jointly, by commo...
_A SPOKEN WARNING OF APOSTASY_ Jude 1:17-19 _Text_ 17. But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18. that they said to you, I...
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; BUT, BELOVED - in contrast to those reprobates, Jude 1:20, again. REMEMBER. His readers had...
VERSE 17. BUT, BELOVED, REMEMBER. The utterances of these false teachers ignore, and this you will do, if you but remember, as I exhort you to do, the words spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Ch...
OF THE APOSTLES] RV 'by the apostles': cp. 2 Peter 3:2....
FIGHT FOR THE *FAITH! JUDE _HILDA BRIGHT_ WHAT THIS LETTER IS ABOUT Jude wrote the letter to warn his readers against false teachers. These teachers claimed to be Christians. But they were being...
‘But, dear friends’ signals a pleasant change of tone. The false teachers are no longer Jude’s immediate subject. Jude now turns from his collection of *Old Testament references (verses 5-16). There...
(12-19) Three-fold description of the ungodly, corresponding to the three examples just given. The divisions are clearly marked, each section beginning with “These are” (Jude 1:12; Jude 1:16; Jude 1:1...
CHAPTER 36 THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO BALAAM: IMPIOUS DISCONTENT AND GREED OF THE LIBERTINES-THE APOSTOLIC WARNING RESPECTING THEM. Jude 1:16. THESE words form the second part of the threefold...
ὑμεῖς δὲ, ἀγαπητοί, μνήσθητε τῶν ῥημάτων τῶν προειρημένων ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων. The writer turns again, as in Jude 1:20 below, to the faithful members of the Church (Jude 1:3) and reminds them, not now o...
_The Faithful are bidden to call to mind the warnings of the Apostles_. The Apostles warned you repeatedly that in the last time there would arise mockers led away by their own carnal lusts. It is the...
BEWARE OF THE TOUCH OF THE UNGODLY Jude 1:12 What traps and pitfalls beset us! How many have fallen who had as good or a better chance than we! The angels kept not their first estate; Adam, though cr...
APOSTASY DESCRIBED Jude pleaded with the faithful Christians to remember the teachings of the apostles. Jesus had said those men would relate all of His teachings and commandments (verse 17; Matthew 2...
(11) But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; (11) The rising up of such monsters was spoken of before, that we should not be troubled at...
Be mindful, &c. He now exhorts the faithful to remain steadfast in the belief and practice of what they had heard from the apostles, who had also foretold that in after times (literally, in the last t...
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. I include the whole of this awful portrait, though made up of different characters, under one view, because they all form but on...
CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chapt...
17._But, beloved_. To a most ancient prophecy he now adds the admonitions of the apostles, the memory of whom was recent. As to the verb μνήσθητε, it makes no great difference, whether you read it as...
The Epistle of Jude develops the history of the apostasy of Christendom, from the earliest elements that crept into the assembly to corrupt it, down to its judgment at the appearing of our Lord, but a...
BUT, BELOVED,.... Or "my beloved", as the Syriac and Arabic versions read; or "our brethren", as the Ethiopic version; the apostle addresses the saints in this manner, to distinguish them from the fal...
_But, beloved_ To prevent you from giving heed to the vain speeches of these deceivers; _remember the words which were spoken before_ Or spoken prophetically; _by the apostles_ Who have preached the g...
An admonition to holy steadfastness:...
BUT, BELOVED, REMEMBER YE THE WORDS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BEFORE OF THE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,...
17-23 Sensual men separate from Christ, and his church, and join themselves to the devil, the world, and the flesh, by ungodly and sinful practices. That is infinitely worse than to separate from any...
Especially Paul and Peter: see ACTS 20:29 and 2 PETER 3:2, besides the places in the margin. From this passage it appears that this Epistle was written late, and, likely, after the other apostles, exc...
Jude 1:17 But G1161 you G5210 beloved G27 remember G3415 (G5682) words G4487 which G3588 before G4280 ...
HAVING EXPOSED THE UNGODLY JUDE NOW TURNS TO THE GODLY AND SEEKS TO ENCOURAGE THEM AND GIVE THEM GUIDANCE (JUDE 1:17). He first reminds God's true people that what is happening is in full accord with...
‘But you, beloved, remember you the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their ow...
Jude 1:17. Nor has any new thing happened to you. All this was foreseen and foretold. You yourselves know it; you have only to ‘remember the words spoken before by the apostles' (as in Acts 20:29-30;...
REMEMBER YE (υμεις μνησθητε). First aorist passive (deponent) imperative of μιμνησκω with genitive ρηματων (words). In 2 Peter 3:2 we have the indirect form (infinitive μνησθηνα). The rest as in II...
Jude 1:17 Practical Use of the Epistles of Paul. I. The remarkable man whom God specially raised up to carry the Gospel to the Gentiles must himself be familiar to us if we would study his epistles p...
CONTENTS: The apostasy and apostate teachers described. Assurance and comfort for true believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Jude, James, Michael, Moses, Cain, Balaam, Enoch, Adam. CONCLUS...
THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is c...
BUT REMEMBER! "To prevent them from fooling even you, I ask you to remember what the true apostles of our Lord Jesus told you in the past!...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:17 Concluding Exhortations. Jude stresses the proper response of believers to false teachers. ⇐...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:12. SPOTS.—Lit. σπιλάδες, rocks; Vulg. _maculæ_ (compare 2 Peter 2:13). “Rocks in your love-feast, causing stumbling and shipwreck.” FEEDING THEMSELVES.—Seeking...
Shall we go to the general epistle of Jude. Jude introduces himself as... A servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James (Jude 1:1), The word servant in Greek is doulos, bondslave of Jesus Christ. B...
1 John 4:6; 2 Peter 3:2; Acts 20:35; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 4:11;...
Having largely described those seducers, our apostle now comes to exhort those to whom he wrote to BEWARE of them, assuring them that the apostles of Christ, St. Paul, and particularly St. Peter, had...