About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
The Holy Spirit by Jude has sealed the truth of this ancient word, which came by tradition long before any book recorded it. Striking that the earliest prophecies leaped forward to Christ's second coming in glory rather than His first in lowliness, Enoch himself, taken without death, embodied the resurrection hope he preached against a world that trusted only in nature's permanence.
AI summary
Nothing in Moses says Enoch was a prophet, but it is entirely reasonable that he spoke prophecies now lost to us, preserved by tradition instead. Jude quotes this ancient word about such men as these seducers without claiming to cite a book; an inspired writer could draw a true prophecy from the mass of Jewish traditions without borrowing from apocrypha.
AI summary
Sin is filthiness; it renders men odious and vile in God's sight, and sooner or later makes them vile in their own eyes and in the eyes of all around them. These filthy dreamers dream themselves into a fool's paradise on earth, and into a real hell at last.
AI summary
Commenting on Jude 1:8-15