3 Grace + be with 3 Jno. 3. you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, h 1 Pe. 4. 8. 1 Jno.3.23. Jno. 14. 15. 7 For k many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. m This is a deceiver and an antiChrist. 8 n Look to your in d truth and love. 1 Jno. 2. 5. selves," that we lose 1 Jno. 2.24. not 1 1 Jno. 4. 2. 4 I rejoiced greatly i that I found of thy k children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Fa-n Mar. 13. 9. ther. o Ga. 3. 4. 5 And now I be-t Or, gained. seech thee, lady, fnot some copies read, which as though I wrote a ye have new commandment gained, but those things we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9pWhosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in doctrine of the unto thee, but that that ye re-Christ, he hath both which we had from ceive, &c. the Father and the the beginning, 8 that p 1 Jno.2.23. Son. we love one another." 10 If there come This short epistle, and that which follows, (being written, as it is probable, not long before the apostle's death, and neither to any church by name, nor to the churches at large, but to individuals,) were not generally and unanimously known and acknowledged to be written by him, in the earliest ages, in the decided manuer that the preceding epistle was: but their coincidence with it, in sentiment, manner, and language, satisfied all concerned at an early period, that they were written by the same person. Mill observes, that of the thirteen verses in this epistle, eight may be found in the first, either in sense or in expression.-The word rendered, The Elder, might probably be applied to St. John, when all the other apostles were dead, as a title of honourable distinction; for he was the Senior of the whole church or he might modestly, yet as claiming authority, assame it on this occasion. Some have conjectured, that the church of Jerusalem was figuratively meant by the elect lady; and that of Ephesus, where John is supposed to have at this time resided, by her elect sister but it has more generally been thought, that an eminent and honourable Christian matron, well known in the church, was addressed by the title of the elect lady, and that some other honourable Christian woman, nearly related to her, was intended by her elect sister.-See Scott. There is no fixing the date of this and the following Epistle with any certainty. It in a great measure depends on the date of the first Epistle; soon after which, it is generally agreed, both these were written. wellbeloved 1 THE elder unto A. D. 90. the Gaius, a whom I love a 2 Jno. 1. int the truth. mayest † Or, truly. Or, pray. b 2 Juo. 4. 1 Co. 4. 15. Gr. 2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3 For I rejoiced worthy of greatly, when the brethren came and & 9. 16. testified of the truth that is in thee, even as b thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully what-, soever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; God. d Ac. 8. 4. e 1 Co. 9. 12. 15. 2 Co. 4. 5. Col. 1. 24. 17. f1Jno. 2.29. 7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, d taking nothing of the Gentiles. 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth. 9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will rememPs. 37. 27. ber his deeds which Is. 1. 16, he doeth, prating 1 Pe. 3.11. against us with malicious words and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. ver. 6 14 αξίως του 6 Which have borne osov. In a witness of thy cha- manner rity before the worthy of church: whom if God, and thou bring forward on to him, and their journey after obligations a godly sort," thou to him. shalt do well: ¡your relation 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. f He that doeth good is of God: Good report 12 Demetrius g hath good report of all I had many JUDE. A. D. 90. 51 Th. 4. 12. 1 Ti. 3. 7. i 2 Jno. 12. of Demetriu things to write, but ! will not with ink and Pen write unto thee: 14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name. All enquiries, whether Gaius, to whom the epistle is addressed, was, or was not, the person mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, and in the epistles of St. Paul, have hitherto terminated in uncertainty. There can be no reasonable doubt, that the strangers," and those "who for his name's sake went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles," were evangelists, or missionaries.-Scott. a Lu. 6. 16. delivered unto the 1 JUDE, the ser- A. D. cir. 66. faith which was once vant of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God 1 Pe. 1. 5. the Father, and b pre-e Ro. 1. 7. served in Jesus Christ, a 1 Pe. 1. 2. and called: 2 Pe. 1. 2. 2 Mercy unto you, e Tit. 1. 4. and d peace, and love, f be multiplied. 3 Beloved, when I Ph. 1. 27. 1 Ti. 1. 18. g Ga. 2. 4. 4 g For there are certain men crept in unawares, h who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, i turnGod into lasciviousing k the grace of our ness, and denying the only Lord God, gave all diligence toh Ro. 9. 21. and our Lord Jesus write unto you of the common salva-2 Pe. 2. 10. Christ. tion, it was needful k Tit. 2. 11. He. 12. 15. 5 I will therefore for me to write unto 1 Tit. 1. 16. put you in rememyou, and exhort you 2 Pe. 2. 1. brance, though that fye should ear-m 1 Co. 10.9. once knew this, how nestly contend for the that m the Lord, hav ye Punishment of JUDE. false teachers. ing saved the people|A. D. cir. 66. but what they know out of the land of Egypt,afterward a destroyed them that believed not. Nu. 14.29. Ps. 106.26. 19. o Jno. 8. 44. + Or, prin p 2 Pe. 2. 4. q Re. 20. 10. 2 Pe. 2. 6. Gr. other. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left cipality. their own habitation, he p hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness q unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodoms and Gomorrha, and Ex. 22. 28. the cities about them Da. 10. 13. in like manner, giving Re. 12. 7. themselves over to 2 Pe. 2. 11. fornication, and go-y Ze. 3. 2. ing after strange z 2 Pe. 2. 12. flesh, are set forth for a Ge. 4. 5. an example, suffering 1Jno 3.12. the vengeance of b Nu. 22. 7. eternal fire. 2 Pe. 2. 10. u naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and bran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 d These are spots e feasts of up by the in your charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: fclouds they are without water, carried g about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, 21. plucked 8 Likewise also 2 Pe. 2. 15. roots these filthy dreamers c Nu. 16. 1. defile the flesh, des- d 2 Pe. 2. 13. pise dominion, and e1 Co. 11.21. speak evil of digni- f Pr. 25. 14. ties. 2 Pe. 2. 17. Ep. 4. 14. Ma. 15. 13. Is. 57. 20. then seventh from Ph. 3. 19. Adam, prophesied of 12 Pe. 2. 17. these, saying, Ge. 5. 18. hold, the Lord comDe. 33 2. eth with ten thousand Da. 7. 10. of his saints, k 9 Yet u Michael g the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him am railing accusation, but said, y The Lord rebuke thee. 10 z But these speak evil of those things which they know not: Ze. 14. 5. Ma. 25.31. 13 Raging waves of the sea, k foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. 14 And Enoch also Be 15 To execute judg 2 Th. 1.7. ment upon all, and to convince all that are lungodly among them Re. 1. 7. |