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Jude","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JUDE\n\nSt. Jude, who wrote this Epistle, was one of the twelve Apostles and\nbrother to St. James the Less. The time it was written is uncertain:\nonly it may be inferred from verse 17 that few or none of the Apostles\nwere then living, except St. John. He inveighs against the heresies and\nwicked practices of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics, etc.,\ndescribing them and their leaders by strong epithets and similes, He\nexhorts the faithful to contend earnestly for the faith first delivered\nto them and to beware of heretics.\n\n\nJude Chapter 1\n\nHe exhorts them to stand to the faith first delivered to them and to\nbeware of heretics.\n\n1:1. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them\nthat are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and\ncalled.\n\n1:2. Mercy unto you and peace: and charity be fulfilled.\n\n1:3. Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your\ncommon salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech\nyou to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.\n\n1:4. For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long\nago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God\ninto riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus\nChrist.\n\n1:5. I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that\nJesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards\ndestroy them that believed not.\n\n1:6. And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their\nown habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains,\nunto the judgment of the great day.\n\nPrincipality... That is, the state in which they were first created,\ntheir original dignity.\n\n1:7. As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner,\nhaving given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were\nmade an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.\n\n1:8. In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise\ndominion and blaspheme majesty.\n\nBlaspheme majesty... Speak evil of them that are in dignity; and even\nutter blasphemies against the divine majesty.\n\n1:9. When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended\nabout the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of\nrailing speech, but said: The Lord command thee.\n\nContended about the body, etc... This contention, which is no where else\nmentioned in holy writ, was originally known by revelation, and\ntransmitted by tradition. It is thought the occasion of it was, that the\ndevil would have had the body buried in such a place and manner, as to\nbe worshipped by the Jews with divine honours. Command thee... or rebuke\nthee.\n\n1:10. But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what\nthings soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are\ncorrupted.\n\n1:11. Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after\nthe error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have\nperished in the contradiction of Core.\n\nGone in the way, etc... Heretics follow the way of Cain, by murdering\nthe souls of their brethren; the way of Balaam, by putting a scantal\nbefore the people of God, for their own private ends; and the way of\nCore or Korah, by their opposition to the church governors of divine\nappointment.\n\n1:12. These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear,\nfeeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by\nwinds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the\nroots:\n\n1:13. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion:\nwandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.\n\n1:14. Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied,\nsaying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints:\n\nProphesied... This prophecy was either known by tradition, or from some\nbook that is since lost.\n\n1:15. To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for\nall the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and\nfor all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.\n\n1:16. These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to\ntheir own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring\npersons, for gain's sake.\n\n1:17. But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have\nbeen spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:\n\nBut you, my dearly beloved, be mindful, etc... He now exhorts the\nfaithful to remain steadfast in the belief and practice of what they had\nheard from the apostles, who had also foretold that in aftertimes (lit.\nin the last time) there should be false teachers, scoffing and\nridiculing all revealed truths, abandoning themselves to their passions\nand lusts; who separate themselves from the Catholic communion by\nheresies and schisms. Sensual men... carried away and enslaved by the\npleasures of the senses.\n\n1:18. Who told you that in the last time there should come mockers,\nwalking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses.\n\n1:19. These are they who separate themselves, sensual men, having not\nthe Spirit.\n\n1:20. But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy\nfaith, praying in the Holy Ghost,\n\n1:21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our\nLord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting.\n\nBuilding yourselves upon your most holy faith... Raising by your\nactions, a spiritual building, founded, 1st, upon faith; 2d, on the love\nof God; 3d, upon hope, whilst you are waiting for the mercies of God,\nand the reward of eternal life; 4th, joined with the great duty of\nprayer.\n\n1:22. And some indeed reprove, being judged:\n\n1:23. But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have\nmercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.\n\nAnd some indeed repove being judged... He gives them another instruction\nto practice charity in endeavouring to convert their neighbour, where\nthey will meet with three sorts of persons: 1st, With persons obstinate\nin their errors and sins; these may be said to be already judged and\ncondemned; they are to be sharply reprehended, reproved, and if possible\nconvinced of their error. 2d, As to others you must endeavour to save\nthem, by pulling them, as it were, out of the fire, from the ruin they\nstand in great danger of. 3d, You must have mercy on others in fear,\nwhen you see them through ignorance of frailty, in danger of being drawn\ninto the snares of these heretics; with these you must deal more gently\nand mildly, with a charitable compassion, hating always, and teaching\nothers to hate the carnal garment which is spotted, their sensual and\ncorrupt manners, that defile both the soul and body.\n\n1:24. Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present\nyou spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the\ncoming of our Lord Jesus Christ:\n\n1:25. To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be\nglory and magnificence, empire and power, before all ages, and now, and\nfor all ages of ages. Amen.\n\nNow to him, etc... St. Jude concludes his epistle with this doxology of\npraising God, and praying to the only God our Saviour, which may either\nsignify God the Father, or God as equally agreeing to all the three\npersons, who are equally the cause of Christ's incarnation, and man's\nsalvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who, being God from eternity,\ntook upon him our human nature, that he might become our Redeemer.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 72: Jude: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1378}