Intro to Jude
3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Jude 3 The letter of Jude finds its name from its author, Jude. Very little is known about Jude, but we do know that he was the brother of James (1:1). If this is the same James as the author of the epistle of James, then this would make Jude the brother to Jesus. It would also reveal his humility in not invoking the privilege of having been the brother to Jesus Christ, but instead identifies himself as the slave of Jesus (The Greek word used in 1:1, is not diakonos meaning servant, but duolos meaning slave) which intimates Jesus Lordship over him. If this is the brother of Jesus writing this letter, then it would have been the literary contemporary to Peter and a possible explanation for why Second Peter echoes much of Jude. Jude evidently had wanted to write to the “call...