“ Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. ”
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied - This is not quite the form of salutation used by the other apostles, but it is one equally expressive of an earnest desire for their welfare....
The author had intended to write them a pastoral letter, but circumstances have made it necessary for him to write in a different strain and to exhort them to contend earnestly for the faith. These c...
unto . to. love . App-135. The only salutation where "love" is mentioned. multiplied . Compare 1 Peter 1:2 ; 2 Peter 1:2 .
2. Mercy to you. Mercy means nearly the same as grace in the salutations of Paul. Were any one to wish for a refined distinction, it may be said that grace is properly the effect of mercy; f...
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Mercy unto you - For even the best have no merit, and must receive every blessing and grace in the way of mercy. Peace - With God and your conscie...
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Mercy - in a time of wretchedness. Therefore mercy stands first: of Christ ( Jude 1:21 ). Peace - in the Holy Spirit ( Jude 1:20 )....
As St. Paul in his two Epistles to Timothy, so St. Jude adds mercy to the 'grace and peace' of the ordinary apostolic salutation.
(1, 2) Address and greeting. (1) Jude. — As to the Jade who here addresses us see Introduction, I. The servant of Jesus Christ. — Better, a servant of Jesus Christ. There is nothing to show...
“Contend Earnestly for the Faith” Jude 1:1-11 Kept is the keynote of this Epistle. It occurs in Jude 1:1 ; Jude 1:6 ; Jude 1:21 , and in another form in Jude 1:24 . Many evil doctrines and...
CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chap...
Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied. In this salutation the apostle wishes for a multiplication of "mercy", from God the Father, by whom these persons were sanctified: mercy is a perfe...
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ The highest glory which any, either man or angel, can aspire to. The word servant , under the old covenant, was adapted to the spirit of fear and bondage, which c...
Apostolic Benediction. A. D. 66. 1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to...
Mercy unto you; which is the fountain of reconciliation, and all the grace vouchsafed you: see 1 Timothy 1:2 2 Timothy 1:2 Titus 1:4 . Love; either he means God's love to them, or their...
‘Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.' The threefold description of their state (called, beloved and kept) is followed by a threefold prayer for mercy, peace and love to be multiplied to t...
THE ENEMIES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Jude 1:1 . The servant .—Better, “a servant.” As he does not call himself an apostle, we cannot, without adequate reason assig...
Jude 1:1 . Jude. That is to say Judas, not Iscariot, Jude 1:1 . The servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, He does not say, «and brother of our Lord,» for we know that James and Jud...
THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is...
Jude … to them that are sanctified. The apostolic benediction I. The apostolic benediction. St. Jude has given the blessing in a fuller form than any of his brethren, superadding the benefits o...
Introductory salutation:
1 Peter 1:2 ; 2 Peter 1:2 ; Revelation 1:4-6 ; Romans 1:7