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Jude 1:6 — King James Version← Study notes

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.


Jude 1:6Greek Interlinear

Greek · Jude 1:622 words
GreekMeaning
ἀγγέλουςangelous
The angelsnounG32
τεte
bothwordG5037
τοὺςtous
thearticleG3588
μὴ
notadverbG3361
τηρήσανταςtērēsantas
having keptverbG5083
τὴνtēn
thearticleG3588
ἑαυτῶνheautōn
their ownpronounG1438
ἀρχὴνarchēn
domainnounG746
ἀλλὰalla
butwordG235
ἀπολιπόνταςapolipontas
having leftverbG620
τὸto
thearticleG3588
ἴδιονidion
their ownadjectiveG2398
οἰκητήριονoikētērion
dwellingnounG3613
εἰςeis
untoprepositionG1519
κρίσινkrisin
the judgmentnounG2920
μεγάληςmegalēs
of the greatadjectiveG3173
ἡμέραςhēmeras
daynounG2250
δεσμοῖςdesmois
in chainsnounG1199
ἀϊδίοιςaidiois
eternaladjectiveG126
ὑπὸhypo
underprepositionG5259
ζόφονzophon
darknessnounG2217
τετήρηκενtetērēken
He has keptverbG5083
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Jude 1:6

For the Lord God, he says, who once delivered a people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not; that is, that He might train them through punishment. For they were indeed punished, and they perished on account of those that are saved, until they turn to the Lord. But the angels, he says, that kept not their own pre-eminence, that, namely, which they received through advancement, but left their own habitation, meaning, that is, the heaven and the stars,…

Clement of Alexandria · 3rd century · Comments on the Epistle of Jude (fragment preserved by Cassiodorus)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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