Jude 1:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

Though ye once knew this] RV 'though ye know all things once for all,' i.e. because they are Christians, and have learnt the whole Christian creed (cp. Hebrews 6:2); or perhaps (a deeper thought) because they have as Christians 'the Spirit in their mind'(cp. Ephesians 4:17; Ephesians 4:23), and 'need not that any man teach them' (1 John 2:27).

A curious reading of some MSS is noticed in RM—'Jesus' for the Lord. It recalls Hebrews 4:8, as the rest of the v. does Hebrews 3:17-19.

Jude 1:5

5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.