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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
St. Jude, who wrote this Epistle, was one of the twelve Apostles andbrother to St. James the Less. The time it was written is uncertain:only it may be inferred from verse 17 that few or none of the Apostleswere then living, except St. John. He inveighs against the heresies andwicked practices of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics, etc.,describing them and their leaders by strong epithets and similes, Heexhorts the faithful to contend earnestly for the faith first deliveredto them and to beware of heretics.
Jude Chapter 1
He exhorts them to stand to the faith first delivered to them and tobeware of heretics.
1:1. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to themthat are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ andcalled.
1:2. Mercy unto you and peace: and charity be fulfilled.
1:3. Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning yourcommon salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseechyou to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
1:4. For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of longago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord Godinto riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord JesusChrist.
1:5. I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, thatJesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwardsdestroy them that believed not.
1:6. And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook theirown habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains,unto the judgment of the great day.
Principality… That is, the state in which they were first created,their original dignity.
1:7. As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner,having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, weremade an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
1:8. In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despisedominion and blaspheme majesty.
Blaspheme majesty… Speak evil of them that are in dignity; and evenutter blasphemies against the divine majesty.
1:9. When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contendedabout the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment ofrailing speech, but said: The Lord command thee.
Contended about the body, etc… This contention, which is no where elsementioned in holy writ, was originally known by revelation, andtransmitted by tradition. It is thought