Quaker Bible Index

(Jude 1:1)

GF4: 325 (1663): called and sanctified of God the Father, and reserved in Christ Jesus [Jude 1:1]

(Jude 1:2)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:2: GF8: 197, 290 (under 1 Pet 1:2), IP3:304 (John 16:26f)]

JN2:568 (1655): Grace, mercy and truth be multiplied [Jude 1:2]

(Jude 1:3)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:3: MFU 388 (under Heb 11:2), IP4:202 (1 Jn 2:27), RBA 345 (Mat 15:6)]

GF5: 223 (1676): the common faith and the common salvation [Jude 1:3]

GF8: 71 (1674): the Lord moved me to ... exhort and to write [Jude 1:3]

GF8: 179 (1679): which faith the saints ... are to contend for [Jude 1:3]

WPR 151 (1678): Our weapons and our armour is spiritual; it hath prevailed and it will prevail, if we keep in the faith which was first delivered to us [Jude 1:3]: a blessed shield [Eph 6:16] by which the just live [Hab 2:4, Rom 1:17]

(Jude 1:4)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:4: GFJN 550 (under Mat 28:19), GF3:81f (Heb 6:2), 375 (Heb 2:3), GF5:276 (Jas 5:5f), MFU 211f (Jas 1:21)]

GF3:525 (1659): Now they that went to the doctrine of devils [1 Tim 4:1], from the saviour of men, but especially them that believed, and from the grace of God which hath appeared to all men, which brings salvation [Tit 2:11], are they which have turned the grace of God, which is the light, into wantonness [Jude 1:4], who are ordained of old for condemnation, Jude iv. Such are in Cain's way, from the command of God; Core's way from the truth, and Balaam's way from the spirit [Jude 1:11]; those are the clouds and tempests upon whose heads comes the wo.

GF5:382 (1679): "ordained of old" is "written of old" in the old translation [Jude 1:4 Tyndale]

GF6: 268 (1684): such ungodly men are for condemnation [Jude 1:4]

JN2: 301f (1655): that which groans for deliverance is the seed of God, and to them who so groan is the grace to, and that grace being believed and followed, the seed is raised; but who turn this grace into lasciviousness [Jude 1:4] and live in their own wills are kept in death, and such knows not the seed of God and therefore persecute it...

IP2: 9 (1660): The false prophets, and false apostles [2 Cor 11:13], which had crept into the church [Jude 1:4]

IP3: 258 (1672): And all men had need to take heed how they be wanton with the grace of God [Jude 4], or despise the day of their visitation by God's Spirit [Luke 19:44/Heb 10:29]; for if God take away the talent [Mat 25:28], if God put out the inward candle [Prov 20:24], who can light it again?

(Jude 1:6)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:6: GF7:52 (under Mat 11:30), GF8:213 (Mar 9:50)]

GF7: 30 (1653): every one in your measure keep your habitations [Jude 1:6]

GF7: 223 (1662): keep your first habitations in the power of the Lord God [Jude 1:6]

GF7: 242 (1663): and therefore mind what [the first] birth hath brought forth, (and shame it), that hath cried up outward things,... and whether you are not gone into the flesh, and into the air, and lost your habitations of tenderness and compassion....and therefore mind your first habitation [Jude 1:6] and first love [Rev 2:4]

GF8: 176 (1679): he exhorted the faithful, that kept their habitation in Christ Jesus [Jude 1:6] , to turn away from such [2 Tim 3:5]

JN2: 215f (1655): left in darkness...and in chains reserved until the great day [Jude 1:6]

IP3: 81 (1668): Was not the devil defiled, a corrupt tree [Mat 7:17f], an angel fallen from his habitation [Jude 1:6], before he tempted Adam and Eve to sin and fall [Gen 3:1-6]?

EQ 313 (Samuel Fisher, 1661): The chains which the angels who kept not their first estate, are reserved in, are the same under which men, who kept not their first estate, are also reserved under darkness, unto the judgement of the great day [Jude 1:6], and that is the darkness itself, into which they are both gone forth from the light....

HPS 320 (Rebecca Travers, 1669): who hates the Light is, and must be bound in chains of darkness forevermore [Jude 1:6]

(Jude 1:7)

GF: follow after strange flesh [ [Jude 1:7T]

[Other texts citing Jude 1:7: GF7:180 (under Gen 6), GF7:334 (Gen 6:2)]

GF1:196 (1654): And all Friends, if you go from the light, from wanting to have the promise of God fulfilled to the seed, whereby you may know Christ reigns, you thereby bring on yourselves changeable garments, and come to wear the changeable garments [Isa 3:22], and the strange flesh [Jude 1:7], which leads to adultery, which the law goes upon; which shuts out of the kingdom: and out of this will doth proceed the work or building that is for the fire; whereby you may come to suffer loss.

GF7:274 (1666): Sodom, that whorish and adulterous spirit, it must to the fire [Jude 1:7]

IP3: 44 (1667): Query 32. Is not the flesh and blood, which they that have eternal life feed on, and which nourisheth them up to life eternal (they continuing to feed thereon, and not feeding afterwards on strange flesh [Jude 1:7] , and strange blood); I say, is not this flesh and blood Spirit and life?

(Jude 1:8)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:8: IP1:330f (under Jude 1:15f, 2 Pet 2:10), IP3:331 (Rev 13:6)]

GFNJ 418: Then one of them got up and said, "Ye are a company of dreamers"; "Nay," said I,"you are the filthy dreamers that despise the government [Jude 1:8] of the spirit and the power that the apostles were in, and defile your flesh [Jude 1:8[ and say it is presumption for any to say they have the same power and spirit the apostles were in...."

GF4: 358 (1668): false dreamers [Jude 1:8]

GF5:50 (1674): despise government [Jude 1:8, 2 Pet 2:10]

GF7: 22 (1652): despises dignity and defiles the flesh [Jude 1:8]

JN2: 470 (1655): [the lie] that our mortification stands in despising dominion, speaking evil of dignities [Jude 1:8], casting off all natural and civil respects where due, and the like.

JN2: 565 (1655): [the lie] that all our sufferings are occasioned, as defiling the flesh [Jude 1:8], or as evildoers.

IP3: 141 (1671): being not in the thing [Luke 1:35], nor in the Spirit, they despise the dominion, and speak evil of the dignities [Jude 1:8] which are of the Spirit

WPR 643 (1699): Speak not evil of Dignities. Jude 8.

(Jude 1:8f)

MFU 201 (1656): and others denied that Christ's body is Spiritual as Richard Herrick lately did at Manchester, and so thus you are in your contention, and striving about the body of Jesus, as the Devil did about the body of Moses [Jude 1:9], which makes you clearly manifest to all who have their eyes opened in the least measure to be those filthy dreamers which defile the flesh, which Jude speaks of [Jude 1:8]...

(Jude 1:9)

GF5: 127 (1676): and when Michael the archangel strove against the devil ... he durst not blame him with cursed speakings [Jude 1:9 Geneva]...

JN1: 389 (1654): Now, will you call these "railers," because they speak the truth upon the several actings of the spirit of the devil where it was? [Jude 1:9]

WDS 121f (1655): And the least of you in the Truth of God, will overturn all priests, and all the men of the world, that dwell in the serpentine wisdom, and make a trade of the letter [2 Cor 2:17G] (the Scriptures), speaking and disputing of the saints' conditions, as the devil did about the body of Moses [Jude 1:9], but cannot witness the Scriptures sealed to their souls by the eternal Spirit. Now, all you that dwell in the Truth in your measure, will comprehend such to be houses built upon the sand [Mat 7:26f), sturdy oaks that stand in the pride of their own conceits [Isa 2:12f], but have no root.

Margaret Fell, 1667: So Michael stood for the Angel there in the days of Daniel against the power of the Dragon [Dan 12:1, Rev 12:7], this Michael the Apostle calls the Archangel, Jude 9. (Standard of the Lord Revealed, 113 (DQC)

(Jude 1:9f)

IP1: 333 (1660): if any be drawn by the spirit to separate from their formal way, and to seek after the life and presence of the power, them they cried out of as a sectary, a blasphemer, a heretic; and so bring railing accusations [Jude 1:9] against that life and spirit by which he is drawn, and of him for following the drawings of it; and thus they become guilty of speaking evil of what they know not [Jude 1:10].

(Jude 1:10)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:10: GF3:8 (under Luk 23:31), GF3:352f (Mat 19:29), JN1:297 (Mat 7:4f, Luk 9:55), JN2:101 (Rev 14:9), IP1: 331 (Jude 1:15f), IP1:333 (Jude 1:9f ]

GF3: 372 (1659): And so they that hate the light [John 3:19], receive not the spirit of God, but remain in their natural state; and what such know, they know naturally [Jude 1:10], from books, authors, and studies.

JN1: 50 (1653): The first man is natural and carnal and knows not the things of God but what he knows naturally as brute beasts, and therein he doth corrupt himself [Jude 1:10] and doth use all his knowledge for corrupt ends;

JN1: 127 (1653): And thou that speaks lightly, vilely, or accursedly of the light of Christ in his saints speakest evil of that thou knowest not [Jude 1:10], and shall account for thy blasphemy.

JN2: 273 (1655): thou now adventures to judge what thou know not [Jude 1:10]

JN2: 277 (1655): what thou knows naturally as brute beasts, therein thou corrupts thyself [Jude 1:10]

(Jude 1:10f)

MFU:182 (1656): Therefore take heed how thou speaks evil of things thou knowest not [Jude 1:10], lest the woe be pronounced against thee which scripture speaks of [Jude1:11].

(Jude 1:11)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:11: GF3:525 (under Jude 1:4) , GF6:337 (Jude 1:12f), GF7:98f (1 Jn 4:16) JN1:249 (2 Pet 2:14f), JN2:184 (Jas 1:17), JN2:199 (2 Pet 2:14)]

GF3: 516 (1659): Here all may see his work to be the work of the envious man in Cain's way, Jude xi. who would murder

GF8: 176 (1679): And those that Peter and Jude cried against, that were come so far as Balaam, to prophesy, and Cain to hear the voice of God, and a Cora, who came out of Egypt [Jude 1:11]... who were turned to be mockers [Jude 1:18]

JN1: 82 (1653): ye are the antichrists of this world and hate them who are not of this world, and seek to bring them from their teacher within to follow you who go in the way of Cain for envy and after the error of Balaam. [Jude 1:11]

JN1: 163 (1653): Baal's priests, running after the way of Cain [Jude 1:11], who loved the wages of unrighteousness [2 Pet 2:15], who ever slew the just in the particular, despiseth the birthright, Cain-like slaying the righteous.

JN2: 178 (1655): So by your works you are so far from Paul that you are outrun Balaam [Jude 1:11] and all the false prophets and greedy dogs [Isa 56:11] you read on in the Scriptures....

(Jude 1:12)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:12: GF7:88 (Mat 21:19), GF7:173 (Mat 12:30)]

GF5: 4 (1674): are such that feast and are feeding yourselves without all fear [Jude 1:12]

GF5: 383f (1689): spots in the feasts of the christian's charity [Jude 1:12]

GF6: 330 (1685): trees without holy fruit, twice dead, dead in Adam, and made alive, dead again, and plucked up by the roots [Jude 1:12 confl w 1 Cor 15:22]

GF8: 232 (1683): that you all may be trees with fruit [Jude 1:12], wells with water [2 Pet 2:17, common conflation]

JN2: 598 (1655): thou that art twice dead would be a judge of others when death speaks in thyself.... what a disciple thou art, who art twice dead, plucked up by the roots [Jude 1:12]

IP3: 141 (1668): But now, in the apostasy, the ministers there, are as wells without water [2 Pet 2:17], clouds without rain [Jude 1:12], who have only the show of the thing after the flesh, but not the truth of the thing after the Spirit

IP3: 142 (1668): This declined state hath been a very sink of iniquity, wherein the Christian love hath not only grown cold [Mat 24:12], but hath been quite dead, and plucked up by the very roots [Jude 1:12];

(Jude 1:12f)

GF6: 337 (1686): they that did, and do forsake the right way of the Lord, and do go into the way of Cain, Corah, and Balaam [Jude 1:11], are they that do feed themselves without the fear of God. Such are as the wandering stars from the firmament of God's power [Psa 150:1], and are trees that do not bear fruit to God, and are as clouds, (for people to stare at,) without water, and raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, as in Jude [1: 12f].

(Jude 1:13)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:13: GFJN 14 (under Heb 6:19), GF7:89 (2 Pet 2:10), GF7:92 (confl 2 Pet 2:17), GF8:252 (2 Pet 2:3), MFU 16 (Luk 21:19), JN1: 254 (Rev 1:16), HPS 178 (Luk 22:44), HPS 205 (John 8:12)]

GF3:534 (1659): Christ said, "Freely you have received, freely give [Mat 10:8];" and you will not give freely, who are raging and foaming [Jude 1:13]....

GF6: 330 (1685): wandering stars [Jude 1:13], from the firmament of God's power [Psa 150:1], not fit for the innocent to steer by to the heavenly Jerusalem, no more than the outward mariners to steer their course by the outward wandering stars to an outward port.

GF8: 243 (1683): raging waves of the sea, casting up mire and dirt: [Jude 1:13/Isa 57:20]

JN2: 436 (1655): foam, mire, and dirt, which like the sea thy rage casts up [Jude 1:13/Isa 57:20]

JN2: 470, 560 (1655): vomit out thy own shame [Jude 1:13]

JN2: 536 (1655): the mouth of the serpent...that belches out thy own shame [Jude 1:13]

IP2: 507 (1667): [My heart rejoices] ... that the blackness of darkness [Jude 1:13] begins to scatter from thee....

HPS 525 (London Women's Meeting 1685): ... some that wilfully, scoffingly, maliciously and revilingly call the Women's Meetings and Idol and an Image; but such Raging Waves of the Sea have but foamed out their own Shame.... [Jude 1:13]

(Jude 1:14)

GF7: 62 (1653): yea ten thousands [Jude 1:14] will witness the covenant, Christ Jesus.

GF7: 67 (1653): And all who witness this light, and love it, their eye is in their head [Eccl 2:14], which is Christ [Eph 4:15], if they be ten thousands [Song 5:10/Jude 1:14]

GF7: 290 (1667): And you that call yourselves orthodox men made by tongues, and say, that is your original, you are so blind, that you cannot see that there was an original before Babel was; for, did not Enoch the prophet, the seventh from Adam, who prophesied in the old world [2 Pet 2:5] before it was destroyed, and long before Babel was, speak concerning the coming of Christ in ten thousand of his saints, as in Jude [1:14]?

JN2: 198 (1655) with ten thousand of his saints he is come [Jude 1:14]

EQ 533 (Robert Barclay, 1676): even so now are there thousands that can set to their seal that he hath now again the second time appeared, and is appearing "in ten thousands of his saints" [Jude 1:14], in and among whom (as a first fruits of many more that shall be gathered) he is restoring the golden age, and bringing them "into the holy order and government of his own son"....

(Jude 1:14f)

IP3: 160 (1668): Is his coming outward? ... Or is his coming inward and spiritual in ten thousands of his saints? Did not Enoch see that he was come so to judge the world? [Jude 1:14f] Doth he not come to be glorified in his saints [2 Th 1:10]? Are not they to judge the world [1 Cor 6:2]? – they in him, he in them?

WPR 333 (1673): First, Enoch's prophecy is mentioned by Jude, but not extant in the Bible [Jude 1:14f]

(Jude 1:15f)

IP1: 331 (1659): Mark what they speak evil of: ... "the things they know not." (Jude 1:10) What were the things they knew not? The inward movings and virtue of his spirit; the inward power, life, glory and dominion of truth in the heart they knew not; it was against Christ in his people their evil deeds and hard speeches were, ver. 15. [Jude 1:15]. But as for the high and great ones, the dominions and dignities [Jude 1:8] of the earth, they knew them well enough, and did not speak evil of them [Jude 1:10]; but had their persons in admiration, because of the advantage they had by them, ver. 16. They have always had a double advantage from these, both of gain to themselves, and of overbearing the lambs of Christ by their great, swelling words [Jude 1:16].

(Jude 1:16)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:16: GF3:534 (under Jas 2:1), GF7:98 (2 Pet 2:18, Rev 10:3), GF8:176 (2 Pet 2:4-6), GF8:252 (2 Pet 2:3)]

GF3:545 (1659): admiring the magistrates' persons, and men's, because of their advantage [Jude 1:16]

JN1:286 (1654): speaking great swelling words [Jude 1:16] as though he would make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men [Rev 13:13], telling of great things that shall be

IP3:141 (1668): for advantage' sake [Jude 1:16] cry up the dominions and dignities which are of the earth (cf v 8)

RBA 288 (1678, X.33): speak it forth in strength of their own wisdom and eloquence [Jude 1:16], and not in the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit and power

(Jude 1:18)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:18: GF8:176 (Jude 1:11)]

GF7: 156 (1658): and through their feigned flattery and dissembling carriage rob, and beguile, and spoil, to fulfil their insatiable, ungodly desires, wills, and lusts [Jude 1:18].

(Jude 1:19)

GF5:51 (1674): these are makers of sects, fleshly, having not the spirit [Jude 1:19 BT]

GF7: 99 (1655): ... are found in the self-separation (from the spirit of God) [Jude 1:19]

GF8:176 (1679): And such like as these were they, that separated themselves, being sensual, having not the spirit. [Jude 1:19] And so it seems these did set up separations from the apostles and saints in their days.

IP1: 332 (1660): "They were sensual; they had not the spirit," and so could not abide the presence, life, judgment, and power of the spirit; but "separated themselves." [Jude 1:19]

IP2: 9 (1660): when...these were discovered for ... ministers of Satan, &c., ... then they separate themselves from the church [Jude 1:19], and ... get up their own false church and ministry.

(Jude 1:20)

[Other texts citing Jude 1:20: GFJN 312 (under Mat 1:20), GF4:273 (Heb 10:25), GF7:297 (1 Jn 5:4), JN1:91 (Heb 3:13), IP2:108 (John 3:8)]

GF7:131 [133] (1656): And it is love that edifieth [1 Cor 8:1], and edifying is in the most holy faith [Jude 1:20GBT]

IP1: 63 (1658): particularly praying is always to be in the Spirit. [Jude 1:20 confl w Eph 6:18]

RBA 334 (1678, XI.22): Jude showeth us that such prayers as are "in the Holy Ghost " only tend to the "building up of ourselves in the most holy faith." [Jude 1:20]

SBD 86 (1750): We labour...to build up the believers in the most holy faith, the fruit whereof is righteousness and godly living. [Jude 1:20]

(Jude 1:20f)

GF8: 190 (1680): not only to talk godly, but to live godly, keeping yourselves in the love of God [Jude 1:21], and building up yourselves in the most holy faith [1:20]

(Jude 1:21)

HPS 375: [Jude 1:21, see under (Mat 24:13)

(Jude 1:23)

GF7: 242 (1663): in [the power of God] is my habitation and dwelling, where I know the unspotted garment [Jude 1:23] hid from all the unclean beasts’ tongues, lips, hands, and eyes

JN1: 145 (1653): you yourselves are escaped as brands plucked out of the fire [Jude 1:23, Zech 3:2]; have you at all turned to him who hath smitten you? or are you bettered by correction?

Catherine Phillips, 1798: It is a sorrowful truth, that even the garments of some of the priesthood are spotted [Jude 1:23] with the world and the flesh; [DQC Memoirs p337]

(Jude 1:24)

GF6:223 (1683) ...able to keep you from those false teachers, and from falling [Jude 1:24] into their ungodly ways....

(Jude 1:25)

IP3: 39f (1667): Yea, he that will know and worship Christ in his fulness (in the majesty of the glory, dominion, and power [Jude 1:25]), must learn to bow at the lowest appearance of his light and Spirit, even at the very feet of Jesus...

RBA 437 (167, XV.3): Hence saith Jude, "to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty," &c., [Jude 1:25] not to men.

WPR 217 (1668): To the ONLY wise God be glory now and ever [Jude 1:25]....From all this I shall lay down this one Assertion, that the Testimonies of Scripture...declare ONE to be God, and God to be One....

WPR 237 (1669): To the only wise God our Saviour be glory, &c. [Jude 1:25] From which I conclude Christ to be God....