{"id":7534,"date":"2021-07-22T18:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/?p=7534"},"modified":"2021-07-22T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T22:34:17","slug":"jude-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/jude-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jude 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/roger.fulk.98?__cft__[0]=AZXdETTNAevs4RwF7ofQlrgqC1FbGVv1vEGkCbvYGw3HFKHqDxpZt5fI8l0HT6tEXLS3vtKuBo7ctfk1WOlzA54QVu8nrF8YgMFVaw7_xO1WwkimVC8qbuKOv_IpjfXtAu7DXrnfdqQ1gxrYDEyI-1IY&amp;__tn__=-UC%2CPH-R\"><strong>Roger Fulk<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/roger.fulk.98\/posts\/10209866176507269?__cft__[0]=AZXdETTNAevs4RwF7ofQlrgqC1FbGVv1vEGkCbvYGw3HFKHqDxpZt5fI8l0HT6tEXLS3vtKuBo7ctfk1WOlzA54QVu8nrF8YgMFVaw7_xO1WwkimVC8qbuKOv_IpjfXtAu7DXrnfdqQ1gxrYDEyI-1IY&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CPH-R\"><strong>July&nbsp;22,&nbsp;2017<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;Shared with Your friends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/v3\/y5\/r\/9EJBw2oYDPv.png\" alt=\"Friends\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite verses and a comentary that I like.Understanding the Bible (Sorenson)Jude 31:3 Jude therefore launches immediately into the occasion of his writing. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. The verb tense in the first phrase of the Authorized Version here implies the past tense hinting at a prior writing. However, the phrase \u201cwhen I gave all diligence\u201d actually involves a present participle. The first phrase of the verse could thus be rendered, \u2018Beloved, in making all diligence to write unto you.\u2019 Jude simply notes that he wrote with diligence (or with urgency). He further refers to his readers as beloved, indicating he likely knew them personally and they thus were beloved unto him. Having established that, he wrote that it was needful (or necessary) for him to write to them concerning \u201cthe common salvation.\u201d His reference to salvation (and by extension the gospel) being common likely refers to how it is for both Jew and gentile alike. The gospel is the same regardless. Thus, the occasion of Jude\u2019s writing was in regard to the basic principles of the gospel itself\u2014the \u201ccommon salvation.\u201d His concern was that the recipients of his epistle might \u201cearnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.\u201d The word translated as earnestly contend (\u03b5\u03c0\u03b1\u03b3\u03c9\u03bd\u03b9\u03b6\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 epagonizomai) has as its root the word (\u03b1\u03b3\u03c9\u03bd\u03b9\u03b6\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9) agonizomai. The latter refers to contending, whether in a context as athletes or more seriously as in battle. The general thought is to \u2018fight for\u2019 or in this context to \u2018defend\u2019 the faith. The faith to which he refers clearly is the gospel of salvation in particular and the body of revealed truth in general. In short, he urged his readers to defend the faith and the Scriptures in which they were contained. He further notes that this faith was \u201conce delivered unto the saints.\u201d The thought likely is that Jesus Christ, with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, delivered the truth of the faith, the gospel of salvation, to the saints. The latter likely refers to the apostles. That truth was not subject to revision or alteration. Though the New Testament was yet to be completed, the truth of the gospel was already established. Jude\u2019s point was the entrance of apostate teachers already coming up with new and peculiar alterations to the common salvation thus delivered. Moreover, that gospel was delivered once. The essence of the word translated as such (\u2018\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03be hapax) can also have the sense of \u2018once for all.\u2019 The gospel is not subject to revision. Even in Jude\u2019s day, it had already been long established. It was not open to alternative options by aspiring apostates. It was the common salvation already delivered. It is this faith (and the gospel undergirding it) which Jude exhorts his readers to rise up and defend. He thus so wrote this epistle.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Fulk July&nbsp;22,&nbsp;2017&nbsp;&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;Shared with Your friends One of my favorite verses and a comentary that I like.Understanding the Bible (Sorenson)Jude 31:3 Jude therefore launches immediately into the occasion of his writing. 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