Didymus the Blind

In his own words on Jude

• Jude 1:4

  There are some godless men who twist Scripture wickedly and who have come into the church, pretending to preach the gospel. Their judgment was decreed long ago, and they have condemned themselves by their actions. As a result, they have been handed over to their impure lusts. By their great ungodliness they have turned the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ into wantonness, and by their wickedness even people who have been called by the gospel have denied the one Lord Jesus Christ. It is in order to win them back that Jude goes on to talk of what God did in the past to people who behaved in that way.

  COMMENTARY ON JUDE

• Jude 1:5

  When Moses delivered the people from Egypt, all those who did not believe perished.

  COMMENTARY ON JUDE

• Jude 1:11

  Since it has been declared that heretics have completely deserted the word of truth, Jude shows how they are subjected to different kinds of evil.

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• Jude 1:12

  These people may say that they will bear fruit, but they are lying because they are incapable of doing that. The reason is that they are thorns and weeds, and trees without any fruit at all. They are fit for nothing except to be thrown into the fire.

  COMMENTARY ON JUDE