“Beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Jude calls us back to the Book and reminds us of what Luke calls “the apostles’ doctrine” (Acts 2:42). By the time Jude wrote, most of the books of the New Testament had been written and were in circulation. The church had no excuse for being deceived by the apostates. The great word is “Remember!” But we cannot remember something that we have never known any more than
Jude 17b