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Jude 1:17

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 of primeval prophecy, but of warning words uttered by the Apostles. Some have taken this as a quotation by Jude from 2 Peter 3:3, where the quotation is given more fully. But, there also, the words are referred back to a prior authority, “holy prophets” and “your Apostles”. The words ὅτι ἔλεγον ὑμῖν, which follow, imply that the warning was spoken, not written, and that it was often repeated.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WORDS. Greek. _rhema,_ See Mark 9:32. WERE. have been. APOSTLES. App-189. LORD. App-98....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Commentary on the Minor Epistles by Caton

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    OF THE APOSTLES] RV 'by the apostles': cp. 2 Peter 3:2....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    An admonition to holy steadfastness:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BUT, BELOVED, REMEMBER YE THE WORDS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BEFORE OF THE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jude 1:17 But G1161 you G5210 beloved G27 remember G3415 (G5682) words G4487 which G3588 before G4280 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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;...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    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!...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:17 Concluding Exhortations. Jude stresses the proper response of believers to false teachers. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 4:6; 2 Peter 3:2; Acts 20:35; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 4:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    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...

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