The Most Neglected Book in the New Testament

Douglas J. Rowston

doi:10.1017/S0028688500010031

The Most Neglected Book in the New Testament

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Douglas J. Rowston

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Type: Short studies
Information: New Testament Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , July 1975 , pp. 554 - 563

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^{page 554 note 2} For the original translation of Jude quoted throughout this paper, see my ‘The Setting of the Letter of Jude’ (an unpublished doctoral dissertation. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. 1971), pp. 120–4.

^{page 554 note 3} Lives of Famous Men, 4: N.P.N.F.² III, 362.

^{page 555 note 1} Die Irrlehrer der Judas – und 2. Petrusbriefes (Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1913). CfBauer's, Walter review in Theologische Rundschau XVIII (1915), 297–9.Google Scholar

^{page 556 note 1} Against Heresies, 1. 26. 1; A.N.F. 1, 351 f.

^{page 556 note 2} Ibid. 1. 31. 1; A.N.F. 1, 358.

^{page 556 note 3} Ibid. 1, 7· 5; A.N.F. 1, 326.

^{page 556 note 4} Cf. Gal. ii. 16; Rom. iii. 28 and Jas. ii. 17, 24. Cf. also Rom. iv. 2, 9 and Jas. ii. 21 f.

^{page 556 note 5} Cf. Rom. iii. 8; vi. 1 f., 15 and Jude 4.

^{page 556 note 6} II Pet. iii. 15f. Cf. Rom. ii. 4 and II Pet. iii. 9.

^{page 557 note 1} Mitton, C. L. has dealt fully with the issue. See his The Formation of the Pauline Corpus of Letters (London, Epworth, 1955), pp. 12, 75 f., for the options of a slowly developing and suddenly appearing collection.Google Scholar

^{page 557 note 2} Comments on the Epistle of Jude; A.N.F. II, 573.

^{page 557 note 3} On First Principles, in. 2. 1; A.N.F. IV, 328.

^{page 557 note 4} Migne, J. P., Patrologiae cursus completus…Series Graeca (Paris, 1857–1866), XXXIX, 1814 f.Google Scholar

^{page 557 note 5} Ibid. LXXXV, 1283–6.

^{page 557 note 6} Lev. xix. 15; Deut. x. 17; xxviii. 50; Isa. ix. 14; Job. xxii. 8; Prov. xviii. 5.

^{page 557 note 7} Amos iv. 11; Zech. iii. 2.

^{page 557 note 8} I Enoch xlviii. 10, I Enoch Ix. 8, and I 'Enoch i. 9; v. 4; xxvii. 2; cf. Assumption of Moses vii. 7, 9.

^{page 558 note 1} Exod. xii. 51; Num. xiv. 29 f., 35.

^{page 558 note 2} Gen. vi. 1–4; I Enoch x. 4–6, 11–14; xii. 4–6.

^{page 558 note 3} Gen. xix. 4–25; Test. Naphtali iii. 2–5.

^{page 558 note 4} Ezek. xxxiv. 8.

^{page 558 note 5} Prov. XXV. 14.

^{page 558 note 6} Isa. lvii. 20.

^{page 558 note 7} I Enoch xviii. 14–16.

^{page 558 note 8} The use of the metaphors from nature (clouds, trees, waves, planets) is reminiscent of I Enoch ii. 2–v. 3 and Assumption of Moses x. 5 f.

^{page 558 note 9} Rom. i. 1; Phil. i. 1.

^{page 558 note 10} Rom. i. 7; I Cor. i. 2.

^{page 558 note 11} I Thess. i. 4; II Thess. ii. 13.

^{page 558 note 12} I Cor. xiii. 13.

^{page 558 note 13} II Cor. xiii. 14.

^{page 558 note 14} Eph. vi. 18.

^{page 558 note 15} Rom. xvi. 25.

^{page 558 note 16} Eph. i. 4; Phil. i. 10; Col. i. 22; I Thess. v. 23.

^{page 558 note 17} Rom. xvi. 27.

^{page 558 note 18} On the Posterity and Exile of Cain, 33–53; Loeb 11, 346–57 (Cain); On the Migration of Abraham, 113–15; Loeb IV, 196–9; Moses, 1. 263–93; Loeb VI, 412–29 (Balaam); On Flight and Finding, 145 f.; Loeb V, 86–9; On Rewards and Punishments, 74–8; Loeb VII, 356–9 (Korah).

^{page 558 note 19} Jewish Antiquities, 1. 60–2; loeb IV, 28–31 (Cain); IV, 104, 129 f.; Loeb IV, 526f., 538f. (Balaam); IV, 14–34, 54–6; Loeb IV, 482–93, 500–3(Korah).

^{page 559 note 1} Rom. i. 5; Gal. i. 23.

^{page 559 note 2} I Cor. x. 10.

^{page 559 note 3} I Cor. ii. 14; xv. 44; cf. Jas. iii. 15.

^{page 559 note 4} Col. ii. 7.

^{page 559 note 5} Church History, III. 20. 7 f.; N.P.N.F. 21, 148.

^{page 559 note 6} Kümmel, W. G., Introduction to the New Testament (London: SCM, 1965), pp. 290 f.Google Scholar

^{page 559 note 7} Ibid. p. 301.

^{page 560 note 1} ‘Judasbrief’, RGG², iii, 462 f.

^{page 561 note 1} Gnosticism and Early Christianity (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966²).

^{page 561 note 2} Ibid. pp. 27–38.

^{page 561 note 3} Ibid. pp. 155–62.

^{page 563 note 1} Cf. Kümmel, op. cit. pp. 302–5.

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