Exposition of Jude 2, Biblical exegesis · Verse 11
VER. 11.
Wo unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and periſhed in the gainſaying of Core.
AT this verſe, and ſo on to the ſeventeenth, our Apoſtle proſecutes the thrid part of that ſecond Argument, whereby he puts the Chriſtians upon contending for the faith againſt Seducers.
That ſecond Argument was taken from the certainty of the deſtruction of thoſe Seducers; and its proſecuted from the fourth to the ſeventeenth verſe of this Epiſtle. Pag. 1. Part 2.In the managing whereof (as hath been ſaid before) the Apoſtle having firſt ſet down ſeveral examples of Gods wrath upon others in former times, for their ſins, from the fourth to the eighth verſe. And ſecondly, Having declared that theſe Seducers lived in the ſame ſins which God had formerly puniſh'd in others, from the eight to this eleventh verſe.
3. He now thirdly concludes; that theſe practiſing their impieties, ſhall partake of their plagues. And this concluſion he proſecutes throughout this eleventh verſe, and forward unto the ſeventeenth. In the handling of which Concluſion, the Apoſtle concludes the deſtruction of theſe,
1. By propounding,
2. By expounding it. Or
1. By a Denunciation thereof.
2. By a Delineation thereof.
1. By propounding and denouncing thereof, in thoſe words of this eleventh verſe, Wo unto them.
2. By an expounding or delineating thereof in the following expreſſions of this and the other verſes, unto the ſeventeenth; and he expounds it by a mixed deſcription of their ſin and miſery; And he mixedly deſcribes their ſin, and miſeries (the effects of their ſins) three wayes:Nominat hos tres prae aliis, quia hi tres fuere Dei, fidei, & ſanctitatis hoſtes, ac fideles ſeducere, & Eccleſiam perdere voluerunt; unde fuerunt Simonis, Gnoſticorum, & haereticorum typi & prodromi. Cor. Lapide in loc.
1. From the ſutable examples of
Cain,
Balaam,
Core,
in this eleventh verſe, whom he rather mentions then any others, in regard of their great hurtfulneſs to the Church by cruelty, ſeduction and ſedition, they being the types and forerunners of theſe Seducers.
2. From ſundry elegant compariſons, ver. 12, 13
3. From the certain and infallible Prophecy of Enoch, propounded and amplified ver. 14, 15, 16.
This eleventh verſe then, conſiſts of theſe two parts.
1. A Denunciation of Wo and Judgment.
2. An Amplification thereof, from the three forementioned examples of Cain, Balaam, Core.
1. The Denunciation of Judgment, in theſe words, Wo unto them.