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Jude 1:5

Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once know this,.... The Alexandrian copy, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin version, read, "knew all things"; but rather it is to be restrained…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I will therefore put you in remembrance - “To show you what must be the doom of such men, I will call certain facts to your recollection, with which you are familiar, respecting the Divine treatment…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I will therefore put you in remembrance - That is, how such persons were proscribed, and condemned to bear the punishment due to such crimes.

Though ye once knew this - The word ἁπαξ, here translated…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jude 1:3-7

We have here, I. The design of the apostle in writing this epistle to the lately converted Jews and Gentiles; namely, to establish them in the Christian faith, and a practice and conversation truly…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

I will therefore put you in remembrance More accurately, I wish to put you in remembrance, or, to remind you. The language presupposes, like that of 2Pe 1:12, to which it presents a close parallel,…