Judas 1
Matthew Henry · Citado em PreceptAustin
Judas 1:1-13
Henry - Believers are preserved from the gates of hell, and to the glory of heaven.
Judas 1:1-13
Henry - From the mercy, peace, and love of God all our comfort flows, all our real enjoyment in this life, all our hope of a better. 1. The mercy of God is the spring and fountain of all the good we have or hope for mercy not only to the miserable, but to the guilty. 2. Next to mercy is peace, which we have from the sense of having obtained mercy. We can have no true and lasting peace but what flows from our reconciliation with God by Jesus Christ. 3. As from mercy springs peace, so from peace springs love, his love to us, our love to him, and our brotherly love (forgotten, wretchedly neglected, grace!) to one another. These the apostle prays may be multiplied, that Christians may not be content with scraps and narrow scantlings of them but that souls and societies may be full of them. Note, God is ready to supply us with all grace, and a fulness in each grace. If we are straitened, we are not straitened in him, but in ourselves. Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints: Agapetoi pasan spouden poioumenos (PMPMSN) graphein (PAN) humin peri tes koines hemon soterias anagken eschon (1SAAI) grapsai (AAN) humin parakalon (PAPMSN) epagonizesthai (PMN) te apax paradotheise (APPFSD) tois hagiois pistei: Click for over 60 versions of this verse.
Judas 1:1-13
Henry - Men, under the power of sin, are so far from observing divine revelation that they do not exercise reason, nor act according to the direction thereof. They walk by sight, and not by faith, and judge of things according to their senses; as these represent things pleasant and agreeable, so they must be approved and esteemed. Brute-creatures follow the instinct of their sensitive appetite, and sinful man follows the inclination of his carnal mind; these refuse to employ the understanding and reason God has given them, and so are ignorant of what they might and ought to know. Strachan says of these false teachers that "Their chief characteristic is that they are ‘alive,’ (Ed: But see Eph 2:1+, Eph 2:2+, Eph 2:3+) and have no sense of the moral issues of life. Like animals, they exist to be taken and destroyed." Sin will take you further than you ever intended to stray. It will keep you longer than you ever intended to stay. And it will cost you more than you ever dreamed you would pay. By these things they are destroyed - Ask "What things?" Green - "Jude is stating a profound truth in linking these two characteristics together. If a man is persistently blind to spiritual values, deaf to the call of God, and rates self-determination as the highest good, then a time will come when he cannot hear the call he has spurned, but is left to the mercy of the turbulent instincts to which he once turned in search of freedom." Are destroyed (5351) (phtheiro from phthío or phthíno = waste, decay, wither, pine away) means to cause harm to in a physical manner or in outward circumstances. To shrivel, to wither, to spoil. It means to ruin or destroy something with the implication of causing something to be corrupt. Figuratively it means to ruin, to cause deterioration of a man's inner life (as by erroneous teaching or immorality) Classic Greek used phtheiro to describe buildings which crumbled with age and a derivative kataphtheiro to described economic ruin. "Phtheireste" was used as a curse to mean "be damned" or "go to the devil". Often in contracts it is laid down that the nurse engaged should not “spoil” her milk. Many papyri refer to animals that have "fallen." The word group can refer to loss of food, of fruits destroyed by grasshoppers. In sum, this is a tragic description of the end for men originally created in the image of God with the express purpose of giving Him glory (Isa 43:7). (See also W E Vine's discussion of this word group - verbs = phtheiro, diaphtheiro, nouns = phthora, diaphthora - Corrupt, Corruption, Corruptible, Vine's Expository Dictionary) Phtheiro is in the present tense, passive voice, indicating that they are in a state of continual destruction (destruction is an inevitable, unavoidable process so to speak), the passive voice emphasizing that this destruction derives from an outside force or power. "It is passive in voice, thus, “by these things they are being brought to ruin.” (Wuest) Their condition is indeed a fearful condition! Their life is ruined temporally in this life and eternally in the life to come! These men have "lowered themselves to the level of animals and in the sexual pursuits (Jude 1:8) are guided by instinct. Yet, unlike the animals which abide by the laws of nature, these godless men are destroyed by the very things they fail to understand. When men by instinct, they abandon even natural law and consequently perish. They place themselves on a par with the animals, but because of their refusal to obey even the laws God has placed in nature, they are destroyed (cp Ro 1:24+)." (Kistemaker) ESV Study Bible - Following subjective feelings and desires, for someone whose conscience is not trained and governed by God’s Word, will lead that person ultimately to be destroyed by his own sinful compulsions. Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah: ouai autois hoti te hodo tou Kain eporeuthesan (3PAPI) kai te plane tou Balaam misthou executhesan (3PAPI) kai te antilogia tou Kore apolonto (3PAMI) Woe = Isa 3:9,11; Jer 13:27; Ezek 13:3; Zech 11:17; Mt 11:21; 23:13, 14, 15, 16; Lk 11:42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 for = Ge 4:5-14; 1Jn 3:12 ran = Nu 22:1-24; 31:16; Dt 23:4; Josh 24:9-11; Mic 6:5; 2Pe 2:15; Rev 2:14 perished = Nu 16:1-35; 26:9,10 Click for over 60 versions of this verse.
Judas 1:1-13
Henry - Trees they are, for they are planted in the Lord's vineyard, yet fruitless ones. Observe, Those whose fruit withers may be justly said to be without fruit. As good never a whit as never the better. It is a sad thing when men seem to begin in the Spirit and end in the flesh, which is almost as common a case as it is an awful one… Plucked up by the roots, as we commonly serve dead trees, from which we expect no more fruit. They are dead, dead, dead; why cumber they the ground? Away with them to the fire. Jesus gave us a similar metaphorical marker of false versus true… Beware (prosecho in the present imperative = command for continual vigilance) of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire (cf "punishment of eternal fire" = Jude 1:7; "destroyed" = Jude 1:10; "perished" = Jude 1:11). So then, you will know them by their fruits. (Mt 7:15-20+) UNCLOUDED TRUTH - The book of Jude contains one of the most vivid and interesting descriptions of apostate teachers. These people who heap up for themselves the severe and certain judgment of God (Jude 1:4) are likened to “clouds without water” (Jude 1:12). Such individuals claim to be heavenly messengers with superior knowledge or power. Others more subtly put on “sheep’s clothing” (Mt. 7:15) and exhibit a superficial beauty of form and purpose but deny the Lord who bought them (2 Pet. 2:1). Having no absolute standards of truth because they reject the infallibility of the Bible, they naturally are constantly changing their position and are thus said to be “carried about by the winds” (Jude 12). Do not many present-day preachers fall into this category? They thunder in their pulpits and give out high-sounding promises of thirst-quenching truth, but they leave the hearts of men parched deserts of death. Because such “ravenous wolves” (Mt. 7:15) have disguised themselves as sheep and infiltrated the flock, we ought to heed the admonition of Jude, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God” (Jude 1:20-21). - Henry G. Bosch Holy Bible, book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine: Mine to tell me whence I came, Mine to teach me what I am. —Burton To avoid being pulled into error, Keep a firm grip on the truth. Jude 1:13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever: kumata agria thalasses epaphrizonta (PAPNPN) tas heauton aischunas kumata agria thalasses epaphrizonta(PAPNPN) tas heauton aischunas Raging = Ps 65:7; 93:3,4; Isa 57:20; Jer 5:22,23 foaming = Php 3:19; 2Ti 3:13 wandering = Rev 8:10,11 to whom = 2Pe 2:17; Rev 14:10,11; 20:10; 21:8 Click for over 60 versions of this verse. Amplified - Wild waves of the sea, flinging up the foam of their own shame and disgrace; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of eternal darkness has been reserved forever.
Judas 1:14-19
Henry - Jude guards them against seducers by a further description of their odious character: Sensualists are the worst separatists. They separate themselves from God, and Christ, and His church, to the world, the flesh and the devil , by their ungodly courses and vicious practices...Sensual men have not the Spirit, that is, of God and Christ, the Spirit of holiness, which whoever has not, is none of Christ's, does not belong to him, Ro 8:9. (Jude - Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary)
Judas 1:20
Henry - Prayer is the nurse of faith; the way to build up ourselves in our most holy faith is to continue instant in prayer, Ro 12:12. Our prayers are then most likely to prevail when we pray in the Holy Ghost, that is, under His guidance and influence, according to the rule of His word, with faith, fervency, and constant persevering importunity; this is praying in the Holy Ghost, whether it be done by or without a set prescribed form. John
Judas 1:20
Henry - The way to hold fast our profession (cf Titus 1:9-note, 1Ti 3:9) is to hold on in it. Having laid our foundation well in a sound faith, and a sincere upright heart, we must build upon it, make further progress continually; and we should take care with what materials we carry on our building, namely, gold, silver, precious stones, not wood, hay, stubble, 1Co. 3:12. Right principles and a regular conversation will stand the test even of the fiery trial; but, whatever we mix of baser alloy, though we be in the main sincere, we shall suffer loss by it, and though our persons be saved all that part of our work shall be consumed; and, if we ourselves escape, it will be with great danger and difficulty, as from a house on fire on every side. (Jude - Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary)
Judas 1:21
Henry says "Christ satisfied for us by obeying the law of redemption, and so He abode in His Father's love and restored us to it." Now we as believers can be continually "immersed" in God's love, His love becoming the environment in which we live --as