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Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute.

And joining me is Dr. Jim Prothro, who is a professor of scripture here at the the Institute. And today we want to talk about the letter of St. Jude, which is about one page in your

Bible, and it's a page that gets heavily neglected. I mean, most of us Catholics, most people

don't even know Protestant or Catholic that there is a letter to St. Jude from Jude. And so the

letter of Jude is what we want to talk about and kind of dive into that a

little bit here. And Jim, let me first begin with, help us understand who is St. Jude for our audience.

Who is this figure who's writing this letter? And of course, this letter comes in what we call

the Catholic Epistles, which is seven letters. After all of

the Gospels, you get Acts of the Apostles, then you get the Pauline letters, and then right

before the Book of Revelation, which is the end, I think most people know that, you get these

seven Catholic epistles, and you get several from St. Peter, and you get several of St. John and then you get James and then Jude,

who's probably out of all of them, you know, the one that's people know the least.

No, I think that's right. So Jude, there's actually a lot of Jews in the Bible.

His name actually is Judas. It's the same name as Judas Ascariat,

but normally we just change the good guy's names to Jude so it isn't as confusing. But when you

get into the lists of the apostles in the gospel, sometimes they'll say the Judas, who

wasn't Ascariat, but that's also a

Jude or a Judas. It's from the Old Testament named Judah, of course. Right. And that's why it's such a

popular name because Judah was one of the great sons of Jacob and very important, the whole tribe

of Judah. That's right. So it's a very popular name. And relatedly today is Simon is just the other version of Simeon, which is one of the 12th tribes.

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