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2 Peter was widely circulated throughout the early church to warn people to watch out for the false teachers that were appearing in the church, who were leading the church to immorality and the loss of its witness. Peter was very concerned that those who say that Christ will not return should not make the church feel that Christ has abandoned them. Jude’s theme is similar and also points the...

discussion. At face value its meaning seems obvious. These people are denying the very (slave) Master who purchased them for himself. The phrase is a simple and moving qualification of who the Master is. He is the one who went out of his way to purchase these people for himself and now they are even denying him. What a sad reflection on the depth of their sin and of their rejection of his Lordship! However, an important theological question is raised by this statement. If the ‘buying’ refers, as
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