Jude 1:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:14-15

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these. The Revisers render it, and to these also Enoch … prophesied. In the apocryphal writing from which the passage is taken Enoch is styled, as here, "the seventh from Adam." Seven occurs in Scripture as a sacred symbolical number. Its introduction here, therefore, is very generally understood to claim a peculiar authority and finality for the prophecy emitted by Enoch. But it may be intended simply to mark the high antiquity of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:14-15

An ancient prophecy of judgment against the wicked. I. THE PROPHET . "And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied." 1 . He was a preeminently holy man, who was translated to heaven without dying. 2 . His descent is here mentioned, II. HIS PROPHECY . It is the coming of Christ to judgment. "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones." We have here the historic tense of prophecy. 1 . The Lord comes from heaven. "The Lord himself... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jude 1:14-19

Future judgment an anticipation of nature and a truth of revelation. "To execute judgment upon all," etc. Its declared era is the Lord's advent; its declared functions are those of correction and retribution. "Great swelling words "—the natural language of the errorist and the deceiver. "Very many such words are recorded in Church history, and that, too, as spoken in justification of unbridled lust. Some of the more openly abominable belong to the Gnostic and other antinomian heretics of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jude 1:15

To execute judgment upon all - That is, he shall come to judge all the dwellers upon the earth, good and bad.And to convince all - The word “convince we now use commonly in a somewhat limited sense, as meaning “to satisfy” a man’s own mind” either of the truth of some proposition, or of the fact that he has done wrong, as being in this latter sense synonymous with the word “convict.” This “conviction” is commonly produced by argument or truth, and is not necessarily followed by any sentence of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jude 1:14-15

Judges 1:14-15. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam Thus described to distinguish him from Enoch the son of Cain, (Genesis 4:17,) who was only the third from Adam; so early was the prophecy delivered, referred to Judges 1:4: prophesied of these As well as of the antediluvian sinners. The first coming of Christ was revealed to Adam, his second and glorious coming to Enoch, who foretold the things which will conclude the last age of the world. St. Jude might know this either from some... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jude 1:1-16

CONTENTS OF THE LETTERCondemnation of the false teachers (1-16)Jude had intended to write about more general matters concerning the Christian faith, but when he heard of the activities of evil teachers he changed his mind. He now feels that it is more important to encourage the Christians to hold firmly to the truth they first heard and to fight against those who want to destroy it. Punishment is certain for those who distort the true teaching of the gospel in order to give themselves the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jude 1:15

upon = against. App-104 . convince = convict. Greek. exelencho. Only here, but the texts read elencho , as John 8:9 . that are = the. among = of. The texts omit. their = the. ungodly deeds = works of impiety ( App-128 . IV). have . Omit. ungodly committed . See 2 Peter 2:6 . have spoken = spake. App-121 . against . App-104 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jude 1:15

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.This prophecy came quite early in human history; and there is no sacred writer, no apostle, no prophet, and not even the Lord himself, who exercised his ministry, except in the shadow of this promise of a day of judgment when God will settle his accounts with the wicked men who have despised him.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jude 1:15

Jude 1:15. To execute judgment, &c.— God will come to execute judgment upon all men, but he will punish none but the ungodly; and then every mouth shall be stopped, not by might, but by evidence and conviction. Enoch prophesied that God would come, and, with a flood, punish that impious race among whom he lived, as well as punish the impenitent with everlasting destruction. By a parity of reason, St. Jude intimates, that the wicked of his and of all ages may also expect to meet with the due... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jude 1:15

This verse and the beginning of Enoch’s prophecy is composed in Hebrew poetic parallelism, the oldest specimen extant. Some think Lamech’s speech, which is also in poetic parallelism, was composed in mockery of Enoch’s prophecy: as Enoch foretold Jehovah’s coming to judgment, so Lamech presumes on impunity in polygamy and murder (just as Cain the murderer seemed to escape with impunity).convince — convict.hard speeches - such as are noticed in :-, :-, :-; :-, :-; contrast :-.ungodly... read more

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