Judges 1:1

1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

Ver. 1. Jude the servant ] To distinguish him from Judas the traitor, lest he should suffer by mistake, as Nicholas the deacon is thought to do, as if he were the author of the sect of the Nicolaitans, which Christ hated. This Jude or Judas, was also surnamed Lebbaeus, that is, hearty; as Hooper the martyr was called hearty Hooper. He was indeed a hearty friend to the truth, earnestly contending for the faith once delivered unto the saints; and ( haereticorum malleus ) a hammer against heretics, whom he describeth here to the life, and opposeth them to his utmost.

To them that are sanctified ] Or to them that are beloved, as other copies have it.

Preserved ] "Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation," 1 Peter 1:5 .