THE APOCALYPTIC HERMENEUTIC OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH: HOW 1 ENOCH SHAPED JUDE'S CHRISTOLOGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CHURCH (original) (raw)
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Jude 11 οὐαὶ αὐτοῖς, ὅτι τῇ ὁδῷ τοῦ Κάϊν ἐπορεύθησαν καὶ τῇ πλάνῃ τοῦ Βαλαὰμ μισθοῦ ἐξεχύθησαν καὶ τῇ ἀντιλογίᾳ τοῦ Κόρε ἀπώλοντο. (NA28) Woe of the Unregenerate Jewish Zealots of Judaea Jude 11 Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain's path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam's error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah's rebellion. (NET) "Woe to them!" is composed of the following: (1) interjection ouai (οὐαί), "woe" (2) dative third person masculine plural form of the intensive personal pronoun autos (αὐτός), "to them." We begin our exegesis of Jude 11 by noting the writer's Spirit inspired use of the figure of asyndeton, which means that he is not using a connecting word between the last statement in Jude 10 and the first one here in Jude 11. The purpose of this figure is to emphasize the solemn nature of the first statement here in Jude 11. The dative third person masculine plural form of the intensive personal pronoun autos (αὐτός) means "them" and the referent of this word is the unregenerate Jewish Zealots in Jude's day and age who were rebelling against the Roman Empire which occupied Judaea in the first century A.D. This interpretation is supported by the fact that this word agrees in gender (masculine) and number (plural) with the nominative masculine plural form of the demonstrative pronoun houtos (οὗτος), "these" which appears in Jude 10. We noted in our study of Jude 10 that it refers to the nearest antecedent in the author's mind rather than the nearest antecedent in the context since the referent of this word are the unregenerate Jewish Zealots who were last mentioned and described in Jude 4 and 8. The interjection ouai (οὐαί) expresses extreme displeasure with someone which calls for retribution against this person. It indicates pain, dissatisfaction and discomfort and can be translated "woe, alas" but in today's English a better translation would be "disaster" since the word pertains to a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction. The word is expressing the idea of the Holy Spirit promising through Jude that disaster would strike these unregenerate Jewish Zealots who were rebelling against the Roman Empire in the first century A.D. in Jude's day and age. It is thus expressing the Holy Spirit's extreme displeasure with these individuals and that a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss and destruction will be experienced by these individuals.