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title: "Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation"
author: "Adam Clarke"
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shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 732 of 769
url: https://scriptura.si/works/adam-clarke-commentary-volume-2-lamentations-to-revelation/732/
cite: "Adam Clarke, Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation, section 732. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/adam-clarke-commentary-volume-2-lamentations-to-revelation/732/"
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# Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation

*Adam Clarke*

Clarke's learned notes on the Hebrew and Greek, verse by verse, from Genesis to Revelation: volume 2 of 2.

## 732. Jude · 4 of 4

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/adam-clarke-commentary-volume-2-lamentations-to-revelation/732/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/adam-clarke-commentary-volume-2-lamentations-to-revelation/732/#p-N

[¶0] Nothing in the Vulgate.

[¶1] Nothing in the Arabic. "This epistle was written a.d. 64, by the Apostle Jude, the brother of James; who is also called Lebbeus and Thaddeus; and who preached (the Gospel) to the Armenians and to the Persians." - This is found at the end of the Armenian Bible, printed in 1698.

[¶2] The Epistle of Jude the son of Joseph, and brother of James, is ended - A MS. copy of the Syriac.

[¶3] The end of the catholic Epistle of St. Jude. - Complutensian.

[¶4] The Epistle of Jude the apostle is ended. - Ibid. Latin text.

[¶5] In the Manuscripts: -

[¶6] Jude. - Codex Vaticanus, B.

[¶7] The Epistle of Jude. - Codex Alexandrinus.

[¶8] The catholic Epistle of Jude. - Codex Ephrem.

[¶9] The Epistle of the holy Apostle Jude. - Codex G, in Griesbach.

[¶10] Of how little authority such subscriptions are, we have already had occasion to observe in various cases. Very few of them are ancient; and none of them coeval with the works to which they are appended. They are, in general, the opinions of the scribes who wrote the copies; or of the Churches for whose use they were written. No stress therefore should be laid on them, as if proceeding from Divine authority.

[¶11] With the Epistle of Jude end all the apostolical epistles, and with it the canon of the New Testament, as to gospels and epistles; for the Apocalypse is a work sui generis, and can rank with neither. It is in general a collection of symbolic prophecies, which do not appear to be yet fully understood by the Christian world, and which can only be known when they are fulfilled.

[¶12] Finished for a new impression, January 4th, 1832. - A. C.