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Jud_1:24-25. CONCLUSION OF THE EPISTLE BY A DOXOLOGY.
Τῷ ΔῈ ΔΥΝΑΜΈΝῼ ] THE SAME COMMENCEMENT OF THE DOXOLOGY IN Rom_16:27.
ὙΜᾶς ] WERE ΑὐΤΟΎς THE CORRECT READING, WE COULD HARDLY DO OTHERWISE THAN REFER IT TO THE LAST-MENTIONED ΟὛς ΔΈ , TO WHICH IT IS UNSUITABLE, AS THEY ARE NOT ἌΠΤΑΙΣΤΟΙ , WHO, AS SUCH, REQUIRE ONLY ΦΥΛΆΣΣΕΙΝ . THAT JUDE ACTUALLY WROTE ΑὐΤΟΎς : “IN THE FLIGHT OF DEVOTION MAY HAVE TURNED FROM HIS READERS, AND SPOKE OF THEM IN THE THIRD PERSON” (DE WETTE), IS HIGHLY IMPROBABLE.
ἈΠΤΑΊΣΤΟΥς ] ἍΠ . ΛΕΓ ., LITERALLY, WHO STRIKES NOT AGAINST; THEN FIGURATIVELY, WHO STUMBLES NOT, DOES NOT OFFEND; HERE IN THE MORAL SENSE AS ΠΤΑΊΩ , Jam_2:10; Jam_3:2; VULGATE: SINE PECCATO.
ΚΑῚ ΣΤῆΣΑΙ ΚΑΤΕΝΏΠΙΟΝ Τῆς ΔΌΞΗς ΑὙΤΟῦ ἈΜῶΜΟΥς ] SCHOTT CORRECTLY REMARKS ON ΚΑΊ : THE SECOND EFFECT IS THE ULTIMATE RESULT OF THE FIRST, SO THAT ΚΑΊ MIGHT BE RENDERED BY AND SO, AND ACCORDINGLY. ΔΌΞΑ IS HERE THE GLORY OF GOD, AS IT WILL BE MANIFESTED AT THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. ON ΣΤῆΣΑΙ ἈΜΏΜΟΥς , COMP. 1Co_1:8; Col_1:22; 1Th_3:13. THE MEANING IS: “WHO CAN EFFECT IT THAT YE MAY APPEAR AS ἌΜΩΜΟΙ BEFORE HIS JUDGMENT-SEAT.”
ἘΝ ἈΓΑΛΛΙΆΣΕΙ ] MENTIONS THE CONDITION IN WHICH CHRISTIANS WILL THEN BE FOUND; COMP. 1Pe_4:13.
Jud_1:25. ΜΌΝῼ ΘΕῷ ] SEE Jud_1:4; Joh_5:44; Rom_16:27; 1Ti_1:17.
ΣΩΤῆΡΙ ἩΜῶΝ ] MARKS, IN CONNECTION WITH ΔΙᾺ ἸΗΣΟῦ ΧΡ ., THE ESSENTIAL CHRISTIAN ELEMENT IN THE IDEA OF GOD; ON ΣΩΤΉΡ AS A DESIGNATION OF GOD, COMP. 1Ti_1:1. SCHOTT INCORRECTLY JOINS ΜΌΝῼ ΘΕῷ WITH ΣΩΤῆΡΙ ἩΜῶΝ , AS IF IT MEANT: “TO HIM WHO ALONE IS GOD, IN SUCH A MANNER THAT HE IS OUR SAVIOUR;” AND THE REASON WHICH HE ASSIGNS: “BECAUSE ΜΌΝΟς ΘΕΌς IS NEVER USED BY ITSELF, BUT ALWAYS OCCURS AS A DESIGNATION OF GOD RELATIVE TO OTHER ATTRIBUTES,” IS CONTRADICTED BY Joh_5:44; ALSO BY 1Ti_1:17 AND JUDE Jud_1:4.
ΔΙᾺ ἸΗΣ . ΧΡΙΣΤΟῦ ] BELONGS TO ΣΩΤῆΡΙ ἩΜῶΝ (SCHOTT), NOT TO ΔΌΞΑ Κ . Τ . Λ . (WIESINGER); IN THIS LATTER CASE IT WOULD BE PUT AFTER ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑ .
ΔΌΞΑ , ΜΕΓΑΛΩΣΎΝΗ Κ . Τ . Λ .] ΔΌΞΑ AND ΚΡΆΤΟς OCCUR FREQUENTLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT DOXOLOGIES (SEE 1Pe_4:11); ΜΕΓΑΛΩΣΎΝΗ AND ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑ ONLY HERE; ΜΕΓΑΛΩΣΎΝΗ CORRESPONDS TO THE HEBREW âÌÉãÆì , COMP. Deu_32:3, LXX.: ΔΌΤΕ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΣΎΝΗΝ Τῷ ΘΕῷ ἩΜῶΝ .
ΠΡῸ ΠΑΝΤῸς ΤΟῦ ΑἸῶΝΟς ] BY THESE WORDS, WANTING IN THE REC., THE IDEA OF ETERNITY IS EXPRESSED IN THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE MANNER. NOT ἜΣΤΩ , BUT ἘΣΤΊ (DE WETTE, SCHOTT), IS TO BE SUPPLIED; COMP. 1Pe_4:11.
ἈΜΉΝ ] THE USUAL CONCLUSION OF DOXOLOGIES, AS IN Rom_1:15; 1Pe_4:11, ETC.; IT STANDS IN THE EPISTLES TO THE GALATIANS AND HEBREWS, PROBABLY ALSO IN 2 PETER, AS HERE, AT THE END OF THE EPISTLE.