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Jude 1:1

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

reads, "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ"--ammel, "to the nations", or "Gentiles, called", &c. the design of the epistle to both is to exhort them to continue in the faith, and contend for it; and to describe false teachers, to point out their principles, practices, and dreadful end, that so they might shun and avoid them.

Hist. Eccles. l. 2. c. 23. Paedagog. l. 3. c. 8. p. 239. & Stromat. l. 3. p. 431. De Cultu Foemin. l. 1. c. 3. In Josh. Homil. 7. fol. 156. E. & Comment, in Matth. p. 223. Ed. Huet.

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