Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
2. Mercy to you. Mercy means nearly the same as grace in the salutations of Paul. Were any one to wish for a refined distinction, it may be said that grace is properly the effect of mercy; for there is no other reason why God has embraced us in love, but that he pitied our miseries.
The same name belongs to the best and worst of men: there was Judas the traitor, and Judas the faithful apostle. Our Judas calls himself Christ's servant, counting this title more honorable than earthly kinship to Christ; to be His sincere servant is greater glory than any earthly throne.
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Commenting on Jude 1:1-2
Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied. In this salutation the apostle wishes for a multiplication of "mercy", from God the Father, by whom these persons were sanctified: mercy is a perfection in God; and shows itself in a special manner towards the elect, in the covenant of grace, in the provision of Christ as a Saviour, in the mission of him into...