Jude 1:15

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To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

This is a quote from the apocryphal book of Enoch 1:9. As for the question of Jude giving credit to Enoch himself as the one who prophesied, this should not be troubling at all. Who is to say that Enoch did not make that prophecy. Maybe Enoch prophesied, and his prophecy was preserved but not perfectly, at least not exactly the way that it exists now in the book of Enoch. Maybe the book of Enoch has carried some oral tradition from Enoch himself but through time has been mixed with pious legend, as other apocryphal writings do. And let us assume that Jude was guided by the Holy Spirit to quote the part that actually came from Enoch himself. (John Litteral) Tertullian says concerning the possible tradition of the book of Enoch, “I am aware that the writing of Enoch… is not received by some, because it is not admitted into the Jewish canon either. I suppose they did not think that, having been published before the flood, it could have safely survived that world-wide calamity. If that is ... Read More

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Nothing more terrible than a God avenging in the majesty of his power his own cause. Then the impious libertine, in proportion as he has studied to extinguish in himself and to stifle in others the light of faith, the more shall be confounded and overwhelmed with the glory of God in the day of just retribution.

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