“our common salvation,” and reminds the group of its prophetic heritage. He guards them against the pollutions of false teachers, how they preach heterodoxy and cause divisions. He defends the honor of Jesus, as well as the honorable status of authorized persons in the group (v 8). The document may profitably be examined as the author’s riposte to an honor challenge. The world of Jude and indeed the first-century Mediterranean is rightly described as highly agonistic. On the level of peasants and