I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
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4 additional translationsNow I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy;
But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of [the] land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed.
About this book
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About this book
New TestamentJude — Jude writes urgently — he meant to write of salvation generally, but finds he must write to ‘earnestly contend for the faith.’ A brief polemic with echoes of 1 Enoch and a doxology that closes the whole.
- Author
- Jude, brother of James (v. 1) — likely the Lord's brother
- Date
- c. 60s AD; near-parallel to 2 Peter 2