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Sodom Departed Natural Order

THE EPISTLE OF JUDE ·

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Read Jude 6 and 7 as one sentence, because that is how Jude wrote them. Verse 7 opens with "just as" - it is a comparison, and the thing being compared is not the severity of the punishment. It is the nature of the offence.

Verse 6 uses two precise words for what the angels abandoned: their position, arche, and their proper dwelling, oiketerion. Both are words about an assigned place. Then "just as" - and Sodom, doing the matching thing from the other side. Heiser's treatment prints Genesis 6:1-4 alongside these verses for exactly this reason. Three texts, one argument.

Scripture links:

- Jude 6 - "the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling."

- Genesis 6:1-4 - "the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive."

Both parties had somewhere they belonged. Both left it. That is the whole comparison.

What the Scripture Says

  • Jude 6-7ESV

    The angels who did not stay within their own position of authority... just as Sodom and Gomorrah... serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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