William Renay Wilson II on Jude's "faith once for all delivered to the saints" mirroring “delivered” (παραδιδοσθαι) [oral] tradition"

  

Though often identified as later Catholic traditionalism, Jude’s ἅπαξ παραδοθείσῃ τοῖς ἁγίοις πίστει (“faith once for all delivered to the saints,” v. 3) and his appeal to the words of the apostles (v. 17) mirror emphases on “delivered” (παραδιδοσθαι) tradition (2 Thess 2:15; 3:6; 1 Cor 15:3), η πιστις (“the faith”) as a body of teaching (Gal 1:23), and appeals to apostolic authority (1 Cor 9:1; 2 Cor 11:13) found in the early Pauline material (ca. A.D. 50-56). (William Renay Wilson II, Jude’s Apocalyptic Eschatology as Theological Exclusivism [Studies in Jewish and Christian Literature; Dallas: Fontes Press, 2021], 20-21, emphasis added)

 

The Pauline corpus and Jude may in fact be products of a cooperative missionary effort, written within the timeframe of Paul’s journeys, between A.D. 56 and 60. (Ibid., 21)

 

Wilson (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is an Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek at Luther Rice College and Seminary so is clearly a Protestant, not a Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Latter-day Saint critic of the formal sufficiency of the Bible(!)