Verse 24
24. Closing doxology.
Now Literally, but. The now impresses the reader as announcing the close of the train of thought and the starting of a liturgical conclusion, which is here applicable, but not the true thought of the word. The purpose is to contrast the perseverance and blamelessness of the beloved with the secession and impurity of the errorists. This doxology is in the spirit and style of Romans 16:25.
Keep you Assuming it to be your purpose to be kept. For you many copies have them; and then it is a sort of closing prayer of the writer, apart, for them, his readers, his beloved brethren. But Tischendorf has you, which is far more natural.
From falling Into the corruptions and apostasies of these separatists.
Faultless Unstained from the spots of Jude 1:23.
Before… his glory Presence of, might here be omitted, and his glory is almost a name for the divine Being. But the antithesis between keep and present suggests that the keeping is to be during our probation, and the presenting faultless is to be before the judgment throne.
Exceeding joy Literally, a leaping for joy; an exultant jubilation over an accomplished work.
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