Jude, a brother of James

[tonychanyt]

Jd 1:

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,
To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ.

Jude humbly called himself a servant of Jesus even though, like James, he was a biological half-brother.

Wiki:

Clement of Alexandria who lived c. 150–215 AD wrote in his work "Comments on the Epistle of Jude" that Jude, the Epistle of Jude's author was a son of Joseph and a brother of the Lord (without specifying whether he is a son of Joseph by a previous marriage or of Joseph and Mary)

 

[BBAS 64]

Jd 1:


Jude humbly called himself a servant of Jesus even though, like James, he was a biological half-brother.

Wiki:

Good day,

Hegesippus notes



There still survived of the kindred of the Lord the grandsons of Judas, who according to the flesh was called his brother. These were informed against, as belonging to the family of David, and Evocatus brought them before Domitian Caesar: for that emperor dreaded the advent of Christ, as Herod had done.

Philip Schaff: ANF08. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Age - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Jesus and Jude share the flesh of Mary thus they were brothers.

In Him,

Bill

 

[jas3]

Jesus and Jude share the flesh of Mary thus they were brothers.

"According to the flesh" doesn't mean they shared a mother, it refers to Jesus' human nature. More generally, it refers to things that appear real to us according to our material perspective (as opposed to what might actually be true from a spiritual perspective).

Take for example Ephesians 6:5, "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ..."

Is the master-slave relationship one of kinship? Obviously not. St. Paul is saying that in reality, "there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus," although the legal relationship between two men according to the secular world may be one of master and slave.