Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Jude 1:25

μόνῳ θεῷ σωτῆρι ἡμῶν, cf. τὸν μόνον δεσπότην Jude 1:4; Romans 16:27. Θεὸς σωτὴρ occurs in the Magnificat Luke 1:47 and in 1 Timothy 1:1; 1 Timothy 2:3; 1 Timothy 4:10. μόνῳ perhaps emphasized because false teachers held that the God of the Jews, the Creator, was distinct from the true God.

διὰ Ἰ. Χ. (cf. Romans 1:8) is best taken with what follows, “glory to God through Jesus Christ,” not “God, our Saviour through Jesus Christ.” In 1 Peter 4:11 it is said “that God may in all things be glorified through Jesus Christ.”

μεγαλωσύνη occurs several times in the Greek fragment of Enoch but in N.T. only in Hebrews 1:3 “sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.”

ἐξουσία, cf. Revelation 12:10 ἄρτι ἐγένετο ἡ σωτηρία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία τοῦ χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ, which however is a statement of what has happened, not an ascription of praise. It does not occur elsewhere in doxologies (Mayor), though δύναμις and ἰσχύς do.

πρὸ παντὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος stands by itself: we have πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων in 1 Corinthians 2:7, and in Proverbs 8:23 Wisdom says “God founded me πρὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος.”

εἰς πάντας τοὔς αἰῶνας again is a unique variant of the ordinary εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων.

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