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Matthew Poole and continuators on Jude 1:6

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Jude1:6

6 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.

In which they were created, their original Excellency, Truth, Holiness, Purity, Ioh. 8.44. as well as Dignity.

Viz. An heavenly one, from whence, tho they were righteously thrust out by God, 2 Pet· 2.4. yet they may be truly said to have left it themselves, in that they voluntarily rebelled against the Law of their Creation, and committed that Sin which they knew would certainly be punished with such a Dejection.

Into which, Peter saies, they were delivered.

Marginal references: Joh. 8.44.; Or, pricipality.

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