ISB ~ Jude 1 v14 - 15

An excerpt from the Jewish apocryphal work 1 Enoch 1, 9. Many traditions grew up around the figure of Enoch (Gen 5:18-24) that described him as a visionary and recipient of divine secrets. His warning here is that the ungodly will meet certain destruction.

• The canonical status of Jude was often disputed in the early Church because of this non-biblical quotation. Misgivings were finally laid to rest in the fourth and fifth centuries, when the canon of the NT was established in a series of North African synods. Since then, Jude has been formally accepted as an inspired book of the Bible, although doubts about its canonicity lingered on in Syriac Christianity until the early Middle Ages (CCC 120). See note on Jude 9.