Editing Epistle of Jude (section)

==Content==
Jude urges his readers to "contend for the faith" against "certain intruders [who] have stolen in among you".<ref>{{bibleverse|Jude|1:3-4|NRSV|Jude 3-4}}</ref> He warns about false teachers who twist the grace of Christ as a pretext for wantonness. Jude asks the reader to recall how even after the Lord saved his own people out of the land of Egypt, he did not hesitate to destroy those who fell into unbelief, much as he punished the [[Fallen angel|angels who fell]] from their original exalted status and the inhabitants of [[Sodom and Gomorrah]].<ref>{{bibleverse|Jude|1:5-7|NRSV|Jude 5–7}}</ref> He also paraphrases (verse 9) an incident apparently from the [[Assumption of Moses]] that has since been lost about [[Satan]] and [[Michael (archangel)|Michael the Archangel]] quarreling over the body of Moses.

Continuing the analogy from Israel's history, he says that the false teachers have followed in the way of [[Cain]], have rushed after reward into the error of [[Balaam]], and have perished in the rebellion of [[Korah|Korach]]. He describes in vivid terms the opponents he warns of, calling them "clouds without rain", "trees without fruit", "foaming waves of the sea", and "wandering stars".<ref>{{bibleverse|Jude|1:8-16|9|Jude 8–16}}</ref> He exhorts believers to remember the words spoken by the Apostles, using language similar to the second epistle of Peter to answer concerns that the Lord seemed to tarry: "In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts,"<ref>{{bibleverse|Jude|1:18|NRSV|Jude 18}}</ref> and to keep themselves in God's love,<ref>{{bibleverse|Jude|1:21|NRSV|Jude 21}}</ref> before delivering a [[doxology]] to God.<ref>{{bibleverse|Jude|1:24-25|NRSV|Jude 24–25}}</ref>

Jude quotes directly from the [[Book of Enoch]], a widely distributed work among the [[List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha|Old Testament pseudepigrapha]], citing a section of 1 Enoch 1:8 that is based on Deuteronomy 33:2.<ref>{{citation |url=https://intertextual.bible/text/1-enoch-1.9-jude-1.14|title=intertextual.bible/text/1-enoch-1.9-jude-1.14}}</ref><ref>Maxwell Davidson ''Angels at Qumran: A Comparative Study of 1 Enoch 1-36'' 1992 p. 32.  "Ten thousands of holy ones" "this section is modeled in part on Deuteronomy 33 [as noted by J. VanderKam, The Theophany of Enoch 1973 and PD Miller The Divine Warrior in Early Israel 1973]"</ref>