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What the Fathers say

Jude 1:24

Eastern Fathers

Oecumenius

Having said these things, he seals the letter with a prayer.

Commentary on Jude ↗

Clement of Alexandria

"Now to Him," he says, "who is able to keep you without stumbling, and present you faultless before the presence of His glory in joy." In the presence of His glory: he means in the presence of the angels, to be presented faultless, having become angels. …

From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus ↗

Western Saints

Bede

To him who is able to keep you from stumbling, etc. It rightly says here that we will be placed in exultation before the presence of God's glory, whom he previously admonished to serve God in fear. For the more fearful we are about our actions in the present, the more we will rejoice about our deserved reward in the future.

Commentary on the Catholic Epistles ↗