Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to In this article I shall discuss a subject which, to my knowledge, has never been considered before – namely, whether Jude 5–7 presents Jesus as the Angel of the Lord. We are dedicated to our historic Creeds and Confessions because we believe they are faithful to the Scriptures.JavaScript is disabled. I have for some time believed that it was the preincarnate Jesus who interacted with the Children of Israel.I read NA27 and still have a copy its quite good however with NA28 it would seem to give both options Jesus or Lord so why not something like "the Lord Jesus" so on and so forth. A final solution to the vexed problem of the A tradition preserved in Bab. * Views captured on Cambridge Core between . 1. A "difficult" reading is a reading that might produce some cognitive dissonance in the reader, not because anything it says is false, but because of the difficulty of the matter. 9 may also be read as a polemic against the idea that it was a ‘messenger’ ( For the image of an angel being veiled in a cloud, see also Rev 10. L'épitre de Saint JudeJewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic TraditionWissenschaft liche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 1/36; TübingenA Study of the Relation of Isaiah to the Fourth GospelThe Pre-Existence of Christ in the Writings of Justin MartyrJüdisch-Christlicher Schulbetrieb in Alexandria und RomThe Myth of a Descending-Ascending Redeemer in Mediterranean AntiquityChrist and Spirit in the New Testament: Studies in Honour of Charles Francis Digby MouleThe Christological Use of I Enoch 1.9 in Jude 14, 15Jews, Greeks and Christians. THE LETTER OF JUDE. The ‘one like a son of man’ in Dan 7. James White goes in deep on this - listen to the earlier part which leads to issue in question This may be a justifiable identification, for the angel is described with colours from the picture of the ‘one like a son of man’ in 1. First, there is no question that Jude employed “Lord” to refer to Jesus four times (vv. Consider the following facts. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.One of the tenets of modern textual criticism is that the "difficult" reading gets preference (where there is still good manuscript evidence, of course). The final name to explore is the shortest name that Jude uses, the simple uncompounded, unmodified Jesus. A while back Dan asked what seems to be a difficult text-critical question regarding Jude 5: whether it says "Jesus" or "the Lord" led the people out of the land.One of the reasons the UBS committee decided on the κύριος reading was that the Ἰησοῦς reading "was difficult to the point of impossibility." 5. Then the prayer mentions the fate of the fallen souls, alluding to the passages from 1 Enoch ch. Therefore, it is wise to review the variants before moving on in this study. Philipp Bartholomä has cataloged the three main variants and 2 lesser attested variants. And, of course, Lord, as God, makes sense in Jude 5. The book of Jude is one of the shortest books in the New Testament, containing only one small chapter. As considered by Benoit, it would not seem entirely impossible that it is even the Angel of Exodus who is regarded as the one who has thrown the sinners into the abyss. Such as in Malachi 4:2 Jesus is the Sun of Righteousness although there is not a translation problem just showing that Jesus goes by many names and its not really a problemand all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; This fits in rather well with Jewish Two Powers theology. Therefore, the reasoning is that it is more likely that a scribe in the transmission of this text changed "Jesus" to "Lord" than the other way around. The papyrus may thus be taken as further evidence to the effect that Jude 5–7 regards Jesus as the Angel of the Lord, since Jude concomitantly accred its Jesus with the acts of delivering the people out of Egypt and imprisoning the evil angels.Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this journal to your organisation's collection.Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this journal to your organisation's collection.Full text views reflects the number of PDF downloads, PDFs sent to Google Drive, Dropbox and Kindle and HTML full text views.Abstract views reflect the number of visits to the article landing page. In the former verse (Jude 5), apart from the fact that “Jesus” may well be the original reading instead of “Lord,” there is every reason to believe that Jesus may still have been Jude’s intended referent. In order to avoid this conclusion, we would have to translate ‘another, an angel’ in v. 18 and regard the ‘angel’ in v. 19 as another interpolation.) by Luke Wayne 9/5/16. 13–16. This data will be updated every 24 hours.Check if you have access via personal or institutional loginCheck if you have access via personal or institutional loginDer zweite Brief des Petrus und der Brief des JudasDer Brief des Judas und der zweite Brief des PetrusThe Text of the New Testament in the Original GreekLa deuxième épître de Saint Pierre. Jesus or Lord are the same people or name so what its not a big deal.