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ကောင်တာ 1:15
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Genesis 5:18 - Enoch Genesis 6:3 - My Numbers 24:17 - I shall see him 1 Samuel 2:3 - let not arrogancy Psalms 1:5 - shall Psalms 31:18 - grievous things Psalms 89:5 - in the congregation Psalms 94:4 - shall Psalms 99:4 - executest Psalms 139:20 - for they speak Isaiah 3:8 - because Isaiah 26:21 - Lord Jeremiah 23:36 - for every Ezekiel 11:9 - and will Ezekiel 25:11 - I will Ezekiel 35:13 - with Daniel 12:13 - stand Zechariah 14:5 - the Lord Malachi 3:5 - I will come Matthew 12:36 - every Matthew 25:6 - Behold Matthew 25:27 - oughtest Mark 8:38 - when Luke 6:45 - and an Luke 12:3 - whatsoever Luke 19:21 - because John 16:8 - reprove Acts 17:31 - he hath appointed Acts 20:30 - speaking Romans 5:6 - ungodly Romans 14:10 - for 1 Corinthians 6:2 - the saints 1 Corinthians 16:22 - Anathema 2 Corinthians 5:10 - we 1 Thessalonians 4:14 - God 2 Thessalonians 1:7 - when Hebrews 6:2 - eternal Hebrews 9:27 - but James 2:9 - are James 3:6 - a world 1 Peter 4:5 - shall 1 Peter 4:18 - where 2 Peter 2:2 - evil 2 Peter 2:3 - whose 2 Peter 2:5 - a preacher 2 Peter 2:9 - and 2 Peter 2:18 - they speak
Gill's Notes on the Bible
To execute judgment upon all,.... Quick and dead, small and great, high and low, rich and poor, good and bad, righteous and wicked, sheep and goats; to pass the definitive sentence on each, that of absolution, life, and happiness, on his own people, and that of condemnation, death, and misery, on the wicked; which will be done in the most strict and righteous manner:
and to convince all that are ungodly among them; those who are without God, the fear of him love to him, or faith in him; who have lived without the worship of him, or in a false worship; and particularly false teachers are here meant, the same as in Judges 1:4; who will then be convicted in their own consciences, by that clear evidence, and full light, in which things will be set:
of all their ungodly deeds; both against law and Gospel:
which they have ungodly committed; which they lived in the commission of, and continually practised in a vile manner, publicly, and in defiance of heaven, and with seared consciences:
and of all their hard [speeches], which ungodly sinners have spoken against him; either "against" God, as the Vulgate Latin version reads, against his being, his perfections, his providence, his purposes, his word, and worship; or rather against Jesus Christ the Lord, who will come to judge them, against his person and offices, his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice; his ministers and people, his truths and ordinances.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
To execute judgment upon all - That is, he shall come to judge all the dwellers upon the earth, good and bad.
And to convince all - The word “convince we now use commonly in a somewhat limited sense, as meaning “to satisfy” a man’s own mind” either of the truth of some proposition, or of the fact that he has done wrong, as being in this latter sense synonymous with the word “convict.” This “conviction” is commonly produced by argument or truth, and is not necessarily followed by any sentence of disapprobation, or by any judicial condemnation. But this is clearly not the sense in which the word is used here. The purpose of the coming of the Lord will not be to convince men in that sense, though it is undoubtedly true that the wicked will see that their lives have been wrong; but it will be to pronounce a sentence on them as the result of the evidence of their guilt. The Greek word which is here used occurs nowhere else in the New Testament.
All that are ungodly among them - All that are not pious; all that have no religion.
Of all their ungodly deeds ... - Of their wicked actions and words. This is the common doctrine of the Bible, that all the wicked actions and words of men will be called into judgment. In regard to this passage, thus quoted from an ancient prophecy, we may remark:
(1) That the style bears the marks of its being a quotation, or of its being preserved by Jude in the language in which it had been handed down by tradition. It is not the style of Jude. It is not so terse, pointed, energetic.
(2) It has every probable mark of its having been actually delivered by Enoch. The age in which he lived was corrupt. The world was ripening for the deluge. He was himself a good man, and, as would seem perhaps, almost the only good man of his generation. Nothing would be more natural than that he should be reproached by hard words and speeches, and nothing more natural than that he should have pointed the men of his own age to the future judgment.
(3) The doctrine of the final judgment, if this was uttered by Enoch, was an early doctrine in the world. It was held even in the first generations of the race. It was one of those great truths early communicated to man to restrain him from sin, and to lead him to prepare for the great events which are to occur on the earth. The same doctrine has been transmitted from age to age, and is now one of the most important and the most affecting that refers to the final destiny of men.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jude 1:15. To execute judgment — This was originally spoken to the antediluvians; and the coming of the Lord to destroy that world was the thing spoken of in this prophecy or declaration. But as God had threatened this, it required no direct inspiration to foretell it. To execute judgment, c. This is a very strange verse as to its composition, and is loaded with various readings the MSS. and versions being at little agreement among themselves on its phraseology. αυτων, which we translate among them, is omitted by the best MSS. and versions, and is, in all probability, spurious. Many also omit ασεβειας after ργων, ungodly deeds. Many insert λογων, words or speeches, after σκληρων, hard; and this word our translators have supplied. And instead of αμαρτωλοι, sinners, the Sahidic has ανθρωποι, men. There are others of less note; but the frequent recurrence of ALL and UNGODLY makes the construction of the sentence very harsh.
Dr. Macknight supposes that Enoch's prophecy was common among the Jews; for the first words in Hebrew are Maranatha, and these were used by them in that form of excommunication or cursing which they pronounced against irreclaimable offenders. The doctor forgets himself here; the words Maranatha are not Hebrew, but Syriac. In Hebrew the form of execration begins with ארור אתה arur attah, "cursed art thou;" or מחרם אתה mochoram attah: but the Syriac [Syriac] maran atha, is literally, our Lord is coming; see on 1 Corinthians 16:22; but here, in the Syriac, the words are [Syriac] atha moria, "the Lord cometh." So it is doubtful whether this fancied analogy exists.