THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JUDE.
"I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye onee knew this."-Ver. 5.
On the meaning of the word apax, here translated once, much has been written. Dr. Adam Clarke has shown, upon good authority, that it is employed sometimes to signify altogether, entirely, perfectly, fully, etc. Jude may be understood as saying, "I will, therefore, put you in remembrance, though ye are thoroughly, or fully, instructed in this."
"Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation," etc.-Ver. 9.
Of the various conjectures which have been advanced relative to the meaning of this verse, and also as to the source whence Jude derived his information, that of Macknight seems liable to the least objection. In Dan. x. 13, 21, and xii. 1, Michael, he remarks, is spoken of as one of the chief angels who took care of the Israelites as a nation he may, therefore, he thinks, have "been the angel of the Lord" before whom Joshua the high-priest is said to have stood, "Satan being at his right hand to resist him" (Zech. iii. 1); namely, in his design of restoring the Jewish church and state, called by Jude, the body of Moses, just as the Christian church is called by Paul, the body of Christ. Zechariah adds, "And the Lord "—that is, the angel
of the Lord, as is plain from ver. 1-" said unto Satan, the Lord rebuke thee, O Satan! even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee!" Dr. Adam Clarke adopts this view of the passage, and adds to the remarks of Macknight the following: "Among the Hebrews, guph, BODY, is often used for a thing itself: So Rom. vii. 24, the body of sin, signifies sin itself so the body of Moses may signify Moses himself; or that in which he was particularly concerned, namely, his institutes, religion, etc.
GENERAL INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
The numerals i., etc., refer to the volume, and the figures, 1, 2, etc.
to the corresponding figures at the bottom of each page, after 118, of vol. I.
Action, the language of, i. 147;
prophetic, 148.
Acts of the Apostles, the book
of, i. 54; the object and scope
of, iii. 294; difficulties in, 295.
Adultery, spiritual, i. 101.
Agag, his treatment by Samuel,
iii. 41.
Agony, the, of Christ, iii. 219.
Agriculture, the basis of the
Hebrew Commonwealth, ii. 63;
instruments used in, 65; ope-
rations in, 67.
Allegories, nature of, i. 179; in-
terpretation of, 223.
Allegorising by Isaiah and Paul,
iii. 352.
Almond, the Hebrew name of,
ii. 94; symbolic use of, 95.
Aloes, used for embalming, ii.
84.
Alphabetical poems, i. 263.
Altar, an, symbol of, i. 157,
160. Souls that were slain,
under, ib.
Amber, meaning of the word,
ii. 50.
Amos, the book of, iii. 183.
Animals, Moses' distinction of
clean and unclean, ii. 125;
those mentioned in Scripture,
128; domesticated, 129; fero-
157; dubious, 180; taken into
the ark, 370.
Ant, the, ii. 229.
Antelope, the, the Roe of Scrip-
ture, ii. 160; mode of taking
it, 161; references to, ib.
Anthropomorphisms, ii. 364; iii.
Apostates, whether to be re-
covered, iii. 403.
Apple-tree, the, ii. 93.
Application of Scripture, i. 96.
Ark, Noah's, ii. 369.
Arming of the Israelites, at the
Exodus, ii. 306.
Aromatic plants, ii. 83.
Aromatic trees, ii. 112.
Asp, the, ii. 218.
Ass, the, Scripture name of, ii.
135; its use among the Jews,
ib.; used in agriculture, 136;
prophetic references to, ib.
Ass, the wild, ii. 157.
Astrology, known to the Hebrews,
ii. 7.
Astronomy and the Bible, ii. 6, 279.
Babylon, Isaiah's prediction of
its overthrow, i. 241.
Balsam-tree, the, Scripture re-
ferences to, ii. 114.
Bear, the, Scripture references
Bee, the, ii. 229; numerous in
Palestine, ib.
Behemoth, the import of the
name, ii. 180; Job's descrip-
tion of ib,; proofs of its being
the hippopotamus, ib.
Bible, the, compared with
pseudo-sacred books, i. 1; its
diversified character, 2; its
unity, ib.; Neological view of
it, 4; the spirit in which it
should be read, 6; ii. 238;
Divine aid necessary to its
understanding, i. 8; faith a pre-
requisite in reading it, 11;
how its truths should be re-
ceived, 15; the fulness and
depth of its truths, 28; English
version of, 32; how to study
it, 39, ii. 242; the practical
reading of, i. 93; historical
books of, 113; beauties of,
227, 264; how treated by the
modern Deists, 344; inspira-
tion of, 365; its new inter-
preters, 371; character and
integrity of its text, 420;
MSS. of, 424; moral purity
of its doctrines, 420; diffi-
culties in, ii. 233; disadvan-
tages of reading only in a
translation, 245.
Birds, structure and sagacity of,
ii. 189; Hebrew name of a
bird, 192; classes of, 193;
Air Birds, ib.; Land Birds,
201; Water birds, 207.
Blindness, judicial, iii. 236.
Botany, science of, ii. 52; terms
used in, ib.
Boys, Rev, T., on parallelism, i.
270, 289.
Lowth, bishop, on the uses of
parallelism, i. 313.
Brimstone, a symbol of desola-
tion, ii. 45.
Bull, the, references to, ii. 138.
Camel, the, its value in Eastern
countries, ii. 130; Scripture
references to, 132.
Camphire, Scripture references
to, ii. 83.
Canaanites, the extirpation of,
ii. 335.
Candlestick, symbol of, i. 167.
Carefulness, meaning of, i. 34.
Caterpillar, the, ii. 234.
Cedar, the, extensive groves of,
in Lebanon, fi. 112; figures
of speech derived from it, 113.
Cerinthus, heresy of, iii. 263.
Cherubim, the, iii. 168.
Choral Odes, i. 260.
Christ, Jesus, the Divine Word,
iii. 265, 268; union of the
divinity and the humanity in
His person, 220, 240, 274, 284,
285; his agony in the garden,
218; delivering up his king-
dom, 334; the image of God,
393; our righteousness, 162.
Christianity, conquests and in-
fluence of, i. 445.
Chronicles, the books of, iii. 103;
difficulties in, ib.
Chronology, of the Pentateuch,
ii. 316; of the Egyptians,
Babylonians, and other ancient
nations, 317; of Israel and
Judah, i. 115.
Church, the, symbolic descrip-
tion of, ii. 42.
Citron, the, Scripture references
to, ii. 93.
City, a, symbol of, i. 152.
Cockatrice, the, ii. 216.
Colenso, bishop, his mode of
treating the Biblical narra-
tives and miracles, i. 389, 392,
399; his rashness as a critic,
ii. 173, 410.
Colossians, the, difficulties in
the epistle to, iii. 368.
Comforter, the, iii. 282.
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