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A Messianic Commentary: From Jude on Faith and the Destructive Influence of Heresy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Almost no other canonical book has been as neglected and overlooked as the Epistle of Jude. This little book may be small, but it has a big message that is even more relevant today as when it was originally written.

Verse 14 begins with what seems to be a throw-away reference to Enoch being in the seventh generation from Adam. Although this is already alluded to in Genesis, apparently Judah is referencing an expanded understanding within the Book of Enoch, which he then immediately quotes from. It is possible that Judah mentions Enoch as being in the seventh generation to emphasize a sort of “Enochic lineage” for Yeshua, which was apparently common within early Jewish-believing circles, as explained by Peter
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