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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.  
8 aLikewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and bspeak evil of dignitaries.  
9 Yet Michael the archangel, in1 contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, a“The Lord rebuke you!”  
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Jude 1:5

To put you in remembrance (upomnhsai). See II Peter 1:12 upomimnhskein (present active infinitive there, first aorist active infinitive here).

Though ye know all things once for all (eidotav apac panta). Concessive perfect (sense of present) active participle as in II Peter 1:12, but without kaiper.

The Lord (kuriov). Some MSS. add Ihsouv. The use of kuriov here is usually understood to mean the Lord Jesus Christ, as Clement of Alex. (Adumbr. p. 133) explains, Exodus 23:20, by o mustikov ekeinov aggelov Ihsouv (that mystical angel Jesus). For the mystic reference to Christ see I Corinthians 10:4, I Corinthians 10:9; Hebrews 11:26. Some MSS. here add qeov instead of Ihsouv.

Afterward (to deuteron). Adverbial accusative, "the second time." After having saved the people out of Egypt.

Destroyed (apwlesen). First aorist active indicative of apollumi, old verb, to destroy.

Them that believed not (touv mh pisteusantav). First aorist active articular participle of pisteuw. The reference is to Numbers 14:27-37, when all the people rescued from Egypt perished except Caleb and Joshua. This first example by Jude is not in II Peter, but is discussed in I Corinthians 10:5-11; Heb. 3:18-4:2.


 
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