But ye] Ye live amongst these false teachers, take heed therefore that be not seduced by them.
beloved, remember the words] Charity teacheth us to udge, that the sins of Gods servants come, out of forgetfulnesse, not out of evil purposes. So men judge of the errours of them they love.
which were spoken before] That they might not be offended at the rising up of these wicked ones in the Church, he sheweth, that their coming was foretold, v. 4, 14.
of the apostles] That is, by the apostles. Not which others spake of them, but which they spake. It seemeth Jude was alive, when most of the apostles were dead, and therefore he putteth them in minde of their sayings; that they might not die with them.