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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