The writer of the epistle to which the name of Jude is prefixed.  He is identified with the apostle Judas (not Iscariot) [Judas (5)], and in the opinion of some is the same as Judas, one of "the brethren of the Lord," though others make the two men different.  Nothing is known regarding the date or the circumstances of his death.  Tradition makes two of his grandsons excite the jealousy of Domitian, but obtain their release when the tyrant found that no danger was to be apprehended from men so quiet and humble. [Judas (5).  Cf. also (6) (?).] (The Sunday School Teacher's Bible Manual, Hunter, 1894)