[106] This is an assumption of De Wette, who in this followed Sherlock, and was followed by Brückner. It is worth noting that the Vulgate here is as ambiguous as the original Greek: "_Omnem solicitudinem faciens scribendi vobis de communi vestra salute necesse habui scribere vobis_," etc. [107] Lightfoot, _Philippians_, note on i. 1. [108] J. H. Newman, _An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine_ (London, Toovey, 1845), p. 27. [109] _Letter on Catholicism: Complete Works_ (Routledge, 1884), p. 346. [110] _Der alte und der neue Glaube_ (Leipzig, 1872), pp. 13-91: see especially pp. 90, 91. [111] See Dr. Salmon's admirable work on _The Infallibility of the Church_ (Murray, 1888), pp. 33-41. [112] Archer Butler's _Letters on Romanism_, Revised by Rev. Charles Hardwick (Macmillan, 1858), p. 91. CHAPTER XXXII. _THE PERSONS DENOUNCED IN THE EPISTLE. ITS RELATION TO 2 PETER._ "For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old set forth unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ."--ST. JUDE 4. We have here the _occasion_ of the letter stated very plainly. St. Jude was meditating a letter on a more general subject, when the grave peril created by the anti-Christian behaviour of the persons condemned in the text constrained him to write at once on this more urgent topic. An insidious invasion of the Christian Church has taken place by those who have no right to a place within it, and who endanger its peace and purity; and he dare not keep silence. The strong must be exhorted to withstand the evil; the weak must be rescued from it.