Jude 1:1
1:1 in (c-21) Or, possibly, 'by.'... [ Continue Reading ]
1:1 in (c-21) Or, possibly, 'by.'... [ Continue Reading ]
1:2 multiplied. (d-9) The aorist; it is not merely a wish for the future, but that such may be their state.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:4 beforehand (e-15) The article is used here with the perfect participle. The word signifies to appoint by notice beforehand, to fix by proclamation. They are _ the_ ones who of old were so noticed and marked out. sentence, (f-18) _ Krima_ . not the act of condemnation, but the subject-matter on w... [ Continue Reading ]
1:6 keeps (h-18) The Greek perfect tense; signifying here the continuance of what had begun in the past.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:10 themselves. (a-29) Or 'destroy themselves,' 'perish.' See Note d, 1 Corinthians 3:17 .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:12 spots (b-3) This word ordinarily means 'a rock,' and may allude to a sunken rock with the sea over it. This may be the meaning here. autumnal (c-23) Some take it for trees whose fruit withers as in autumn.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:13 shames; (d-10) Not the shame they feel, but the things that are a shame to them. They do not feel it is so; as Philippians 3:19 .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:14 amidst (e-18) Or 'with,' _ en_ .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:21 yourselves (f-2) Aorist; be in that state.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:23 fire; (g-11) The sense of this passage is much disputed and depends on conflicting manuscripts. I have left it as generally taken (see A.V.), but am disposed to think that the word translated 'have compassion' should be omitted, in which case the passage would read. 'And some who dispute correc... [ Continue Reading ]
1:25 age, (a-22) Or 'course [of time],' a large expression and of wide use in Greek.... [ Continue Reading ]