Jude 1:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

With this v. cp. 2 Peter 2:11. St. Jude, however, does not say at all the same thing, and refers to a certain apocryphal Jewish book called 'The Assumption of Moses'; cp. Judges 1:11; Judges 1:14, and 2 Timothy 3:8. Though he refers to such books, he does not necessarily imply that the stories he read in them are true. Even in sermons we sometimes hear references to stories or speeches in Shakespeare or Milton, which we listen to as illustrations, not as being true to fact.