ACC ~ Jude 1 v6

KEPT IN ETERNAL CHAINS. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Jude gives the name chains to the loss of that honor in which the angels had stood and the lust for worldly things which had overcome them and taken away any desire to be converted. ADUMBRATIONS.

THEIR ORIGINAL SOURCE. PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS: If devils are called evil, it is not in respect of their created being, since they owe their origin to the Good and were recipients of a good being. Rather it is because being is lacking to them by virtue of their inability, as Scripture puts it, to hold on to their original source. ON THE DIVINE NAMES 4.23.

IRONIC DESTINY. HESYCHIUS: Who can understand God’s love for his people or figure out the truth just by his own reasoning? For because of the truth he did not spare the angels who sinned, but on account of his kindness toward us he has allowed harlots and publicans into his kingdom. CATENA.

FALLEN ANGELS KEPT IN CHAINS. ANDREAS: They are being kept until they are thrown into the ultimate fire and bound in those chains which cannot be seen because of the darkness. That he has kept them for the coming judgment can be seen from what Peter has written. CATENA.

UNTIL THE JUDGMENT. BEDE: The Holy Spirit convicts the world of the judgment by which the ruler of this world has been judged, in these words of the apostle Jude. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPELS 2.11.

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