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Contend for the Faith

3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you aconcerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting byou to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.  
4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord1 God and our Lord Jesus Christ.  

Old and New Apostates

5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that athe Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.  
6 And the angels who did not keep their1 proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;  
7 as aSodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the1 vengeance of eternal fire.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Jude 1:5

I will therefore put you in remembrance - That is, how such persons were proscribed, and condemned to bear the punishment due to such crimes.

Though ye once knew this - The word ̔ , here translated once, has greatly puzzled many interpreters. It has two meanings in the sacred writings, and indeed in the Greek writers also.

1.It signifies once, one time, as opposed to twice, or several times.

2.Altogether, entirely, perfectly, interpreted by Suidas , ̔· and of this meaning he produces a proof from Josephus; This appears to be the sense of the word in Hebrews 6:4 : ̔ · those who were Fully enlightened. Hebrews 10:2 : ̔ · Thoroughly cleansed. See also Hebrews 10:3. Psalms 62:11 : ̔ ̔ . God spoke Fully, completely, on the subject. St. Jude is to be understood as saying, I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye are Thoroughly instructed in this.

Saved the people - Delivered them from the Egyptian bondage.

Afterward destroyed them - Because they neither believed his word, nor were obedient to his commands. This is the first example of what was mentioned Jude 1:4.


 
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