‘… to those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.’ Jude’s succinct ‘tract for the times’ is addressed to a specific group of people. On the receiving end are those ‘who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ’. The trained eye will have detected a triplet in Jude’s description of these dear people. And that is fairly common
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