According to Ray Summers in his book Essentials of New Testament Greek (p. 103), English translators have a robust challenge trying to adequately covert the Greek language’s perfect tense. The English language does not have a tense of “completed action”; the Greek language…
Jude’s beautiful threefold description of his readers is “those who are called, sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Christ Jesus” (v. 1). This is the blessed state and glorious standing of all the participants in the common…
Jude’s beautiful threefold description of his readers is “those who are called, sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Christ Jesus” (v. 1). This is the blessed state and glorious standing of all the participants in the common…
Jude’s beautiful threefold description of his readers is “those who are called, sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Christ Jesus” (v. 1). This is the blessed state and glorious standing of all the participants in the common salvation found in Christ….
Because of the 19th century B. C. patriarch Judah ben-Jacob and the 2nd century B. C. patriot Judas Maccabeus, the name “Jude” (or “Judah”—Hebrew spelling; “Judas”—Greek spelling) was a popular one among Jewish parents. Even Joseph and Mary had a son with that…
