ACC ~ Jude 1 v4

THOSE WHO TWIST SCRIPTURE. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: There are some godless men who twist Scripture wickedly and who have come into the church, pretending to preach the gospel. Their judgment was decreed long ago, and they have condemned themselves by their actions. As a result, they have been handed over to their impure lusts. By their great ungodliness they have turned the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ into wantonness, and by their wickedness even people who have been called by the gospel have denied the one Lord Jesus Christ. It is in order to win them back that Jude goes on to talk of what God did in the past to people who behaved in that way. COMMENTARY ON JUDE.

ADMISSION SECRETLY GAINED. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: These words were written about those who, after attributing the glory of sonship only to the Word begotten of God the Father, say that another son of the seed of David and Jesse has been united with him and been given a share in the sonship and in the glory proper to God. LETTERS 55.41.

DESIGNATED FOR THIS CONDEMNATION. ANDREAS: Jude means that their condemna-tion was predestined, for even the betrayal of Judas had been foretold. Here he is talking about the Simonians, for they are gluttonous and intemperate, pretending to teach godliness so that they can worm their way into people’s houses. CATENA.

THEY PERVERT THE GRACE OF OUR GOD. BEDE: The grace of our Lord has softened the hard edges of the law, which prescribed such things as stoning and burning for various infractions. Our Lord, however, relaxed these rules and made it possible to purge sins by making reparations and by giving alms. But now, says Jude, these men have taken this relaxation to the point of license and sin all the more boldly when they think that they are not going to be punished for doing so. ON JUDE.

THEY DENY OUR ONLY MASTER AND LORD. OECUMENIUS: If those of us who have received the incarnate Word say that he is someone other than the one who was with the Father from all eternity and in the last days was born of Mary, are we not denying that he is our one Lord and master? For there is but one Lord Jesus according to the union of divinity and humanity. He was the Word of God and God before all ages, and from the beginning of his conception in the womb of the holy virgin he added human flesh to the glory of his divinity. COMMENTARY ON JUDE.

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