{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/jde000.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/jde000.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/jde000.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nThe Epistle of Jude\nThis brief letter is assigned to the Judas of Mat 13:55, one of the brethren of Jesus, and of James, the author of the catholic epistle. It is a hotly debated question whether Peter's second letter or Jude's epistle is the earlier, and, consequently, which writer drew upon the other. It is quite evident, either that the one used the other's epistle or that both drew from a common source. A satisfactory decision is impossible in the present state of the evidence. The matter which is common to the two epistles, besides various scattered resemblances, is principally in Jude 3-18; Pe2 1:1-5; 2:1-18 (see Ezra Abbot, Expositor, 2d series, iii., 139).\nBesides the resemblance to Second Peter, the epistle is marked by its apocryphal references, especially to the Book of Enoch (see notes on Jde 1:9, Jde 1:14). In style it is terse and picturesque. \"It is Greek as learned by a foreigner, and partly from books, and it is mixed up with Hebrew phrases.\" It contains at least fifteen words not found elsewhere in the New Testament. Dean Alford says: \"It is an impassioned invective, in which the writer heaps epithet on epithet, and image on image, and returns again and again to the licentious apostates against whom he warns the church, as though all language were insufficient to give an adequate idea of their profligacy, and of his own abhorrence of their perversion of the grace and doctrines of the Gospel.\"\nList of Greek Words Used by Jude Only\n\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03b6\u03c9 to separate Jde 1:19 \u1f04\u03c0\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 without falling Jde 1:24 \u03b3\u03bf\u03b3\u03b3\u03c5\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03c2 murmurer Jde 1:16 \u03b4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1 example Jde 1:7 \u1f10\u03ba\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03bd\u03b5\u03cd\u03c9 to give over to fornication Jde 1:7 \u1f10\u03bd\u03c5\u03c0\u03bd\u03b9\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9 to dream Jde 1:8 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b1\u03b3\u03c9\u03bd\u03af\u03b6\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 earnestly contend Jde 1:3 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b1\u03c6\u03c1\u03af\u03b6\u03c9 to foam out Jde 1:13 \u03bc\u03b5\u03bc\u03c8\u03af\u03bc\u03bf\u03b9\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 complainer Jde 1:16 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03b4\u03cd\u03c9 to creep in unawares Jde 1:4 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u03ae\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 a wanderer Jde 1:13 \u03c3\u03c0\u03b9\u03bb\u03ac\u03c2 rock Jde 1:12 \u1f51\u03c0\u03ad\u03c7\u03c9 to suffer, undergo Jde 1:7 \u03c6\u03b8\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c0\u03c9\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd\u03cc\u03c2 autumnal Jde 1:12 \u03c6\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff6\u03c2 naturally Jde 1:10","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Jude: Jude Introduction","type":"page"}