the General Epistle of Jude, a canonical book of the New Testament, written against the heretics, who, by their disorderly lives and impious doctrines, corrupted the faith and good morals of the Christians. St Jude draws them in lively colours, as men given up to their passions, full of vanity, conducting themselves by worldly wisdom, and not by the spirit of God.

Judea (anc. geog.), taken largely, either denotes all Palestine, or the greater part of it; and thus it is generally taken in the Roman history: Ptolemy, Rufinus, Jerome, Origen, and Eusebius, take it for the whole of Palestine. Here we consider it as the third part of it on this side the Jordan, and that the southern part is distinct from Samaria and Galilee; under which notion it is often taken, not only in Josephus, but also in the New Testament. It contained four tribes; Judah, Benjamin, Dan, and Simeon, together with Philistia and Idumea; so as to be comprised between Samaria on the north, Arabia Petraea on the south, and to be bounded by the Mediterranean on the west, and by the Lacus Asphaltites, with part of Jordan, on the east. Josephus divides it into 11 parishes; Pliny into 10; by which it has a greater extent than that just mentioned. See Palestine.