ACC ~ Jude 1 v5

PUNISHMENT FOR THE SAKE OF CONVERSION. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: God wanted to teach these people by punishing them. Therefore in the present age they are punished and perish for the sake of those who are being saved until the time when they too are converted. ADUMBRATIONS.

THOSE WHO DID NOT BELIEVE. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: When Moses delivered the people from Egypt, all those who did not believe perished. COMMENTARY ON JUDE.

AFTERWARD DESTROYED. ANDREAS: Jude shows that although God led his people out of Egypt, they turned away from him, and for that reason he gave them over to destruction if they would not repent. CATENA.

ONCE FULLY INFORMED. BEDE: The people to whom Jude is writing have already heard all the hidden mysteries of the faith and have no need to hear anything further from subsequent teachers, as if what they might teach is somehow holier than what they have already learned. ON JUDE.

DISOBEDIENCE PUNISHED. OECUMENIUS: Jude writes this in order to counter the heresies of the Nicolaitans, the Valentinians and the Marcionites. He shows that the author of the Old and of the New Testaments is one and the same God. It is not, as those heretics claimed, that there was one God of the Old Testament, who was cruel and vindictive, and another God of the New Testament, who is mild and forgiving. At the same time he reminds us that those who sin nowadays cannot expect anything better than the fate which befell those who fled Egypt so long ago. For at that time God, in his great power and because of the oath which he had sworn to their ancestors, delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt. But those among them who disobeyed did not go unpunished. The fact that God had blessed their ancestors was of no benefit to them at that point. COMMENTARY ON JUDE.

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