Judas 1
George MacDonald · Citado em PreceptAustin
Judas 1:1-13
MacDonald - Error and apostasy are never static. They lead people pell-mell to the precipice, then over it to destruction. (Believer's Bible Commentary) Moses records the terrifying, dramatic destruction of Korah (and his family -- fathers, our sins may be practiced in private, but the consequences can permeate through our families! Woe!) Moses pronouncing "sentence" on Korah -- “But if the LORD brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you (the children of Israel) will understand that these men (Korah, et al) have spurned (treated with contempt; Lxx = paroxuno) the LORD (Not Moses, but God!).” As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions. So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them (Ed: And there they have remained for over 3000 years, still alive in Sheol today, awaiting their final disposition at the Great White Throne judgement - Rev 20:11-15+), and they perished (Hebrew = abad; Lxx = apollumi) from the midst of the assembly. (Nu 16:30-33) Rebellion is antilogia (anti = against + lego = speak; see also antilego) literally means speaking against or "talking back" reflective of opposition and/or rebellion. In Numbers 16:1-3 Korah spoke against (antilego - he "opposed" or "contradicted") God's servant Moses. It is interesting that the water which Moses brought forth from the rock at Kadesh was called the "waters of Meribah (Strife)" which in the Septuagint (Lxx) is called "hudor antilogias" or "the water of contradiction." W A Criswell - Korah was noted for rebellion against God's chosen leadership (cf. Nu 16:1-40). Hiebert - Like Korah, they (the apostates) openly and defiantly resist constituted authority. 2Ti 3:1-9+ and 3Jn 1:9-10 offer further illustrations of this spirit in operation in the early churches (BORROW Second Peter and Jude An Expositional Commentary)
Judas 1:21
MacDonald - In days of darkness and apostasy, we are to keep the light of the blessed hope burning in our hearts. It will prove a comforting and purifying hope. (1Thes 4:18-note, 1Jn 3:3-note) ARE YOU A GAZER OR A GOER? As someone has well said when it comes to belief in the Lord's return there are two kinds of Christians—gazers and goers. Jude is charging his readers to be gazing goers, motivated to live in the light of the imminent return of the One for Whom they are continually looking. "FUTURE MERCY" For the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life - When we see Jesus, we will be like Him for we will see Him just as He is (1Jn 3:2-note), and to be sure, this is the consummate manifestation of mercy! Earlier Jude had prayed that His mercy would be multiplied to them (Jude 1:2-note). Bengel on mercy - Opposed to fire (Jude 1:23)! (Jude- Bengel's Gnomon) Jamieson - Mercy is usually attributed to the Father: here to the Son; so entirely one are they. (Jude - Commentary Critical and Explanatory)
Judas 1:23
MacDonald says "These we are to save by strong, resolute warning and instruction." Snatching them out of the fire - Rescue them. This phrase pictures rescuing someone out of great danger (like rescuing someone from a building on fire.) Kistemaker sees this as a rescue of some from "the fire of sin." Moffatt understands the reference to be to “the fire of immoral temptations set ablaze by these libertine religionists.” Hiebert favors the "view of Lawlor that those rescued are “believers, weak in the faith” who have become ensnared in the erroneous views and practices of the apostates, and that the fire denotes the resultant “severe chastening judgment.” (Second Peter and Jude An Expositional Commentary) Others understand the fire to denote the fire of hell, the impending fate of the lost (e.g., Matt 5:22; Mark 9:43, 48). E.g., the ESV Study Bible comments that "They were close to the fire of God's judgment" Another has written that "Jude’s expression seems best understood as denoting the fire of hell awaiting the unsaved."