Jude 1:9 BSB — MannaFest

Jude 1:9

But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

KJV

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Titus 3:1-2 (420)

For he does not say to blaspheme no man: but absolutely no one: not an angel, nor any creature of God. Because everything that was made by God is very good. For when Michael the Archangel disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a judgment of blasphemy, but said, "May God rebuke you" (Jud. 9). If Michael therefore did not have the audacity to bring judgement upon the devil, certainly deserving of a curse, for blasphemy: how much more should we be pure from every curse?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Dr. Scott thinks that by the body of Moses we are to understand the Jewish church, whose destruction the devil strove and contended for, as the Christian church is called the body of Christ in the New-Testament style.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Yet Michael the archangel ... - This verse has given more perplexity to expositors than any other part of the Epistle; and in fact the difficulties in regard to it have been so great that some have been led to regard the Epistle as spurious. The difficulty has arisen from these two circumstances: (1) Ignorance of the origin of what is said here of Michael the archangel, nothing of this kind being found in the Old Testament; and, (2) The improbability of the story itself, which looks like a mere Jewish fable.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	But	G1161 →
Μιχαὴλ	Michaēl	Michael	G3413 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἀρχάγγελος,	archangelos	archangel,	G743 →
ὅτε	hote	when	G3753 →
τῷ	tō	with the	G3588 →
διαβόλῳ	diabolō	devil	G1228 →
διακρινόμενος	diakrinomenos	disputing	G1252 →
διελέγετο	dielegeto	he was reasoning	G1256 →
περὶ	peri	about	G4012 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
Μωϋσέως	Mōuseōs	Moses’	G3475 →
σώματος,	sōmatos	body,	G4983 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἐτόλμησεν	etolmēsen	did dare	G5111 →
κρίσιν	krisin	a judgment	G2920 →
ἐπενεγκεῖν	epenegkein	to bring against [him]	G2018 →
βλασφημίας	blasphēmias	blasphemy	G988 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	said;	G2036 →
ἐπιτιμήσαι	epitimēsai	Would [that] he rebuke	G2008 →
σοι	soi	you	G4771 →
κύριος.	kurios	[the] Lord.	G2962 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Daniel 12:1
“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning…
leads to
- Matthew 24:21
  For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
- Jeremiah 30:7
  How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
- Mark 13:19
  For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
Through
Revelation 12:7
Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
leads to
- Daniel 12:1
  “At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning…
- Ephesians 6:12
  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- 2 Peter 2:4
  For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
Through
Zechariah 3:2
And the LORD said to Satan: “The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”
leads to
- Amos 4:11
  “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Jude 1:23
  save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.