Jude 1:4
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
Jude's alert — 'certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ' — introduces one of the sharpest portraits of antinomian distortion in the New Testament. The 'perversion of grace into sensuality' (aselgeia — licentiousness, unbounded indulgence) names a specific theological error: treating divine forgiveness as license for ethical abandonment rather than as power for transformed living. The phrase 'designated for this condemnation' (progegrammenoi eis touto to krima) raises predestinarian questions but more likely refers to the types previously written about in scripture — the Israelites in the wilderness, Sodom, and the fallen angels of verses 5-7. The verse addresses a perennial threat to the church: the theological sophistication that separates salvation from sanctification.
תרגומים נוספים
For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying,
For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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