2 Peter 2:10

but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:

This concludes the description of them that are kept under punishment until the judgment. The peculiar cast of the words here "suggests that sodomy is here referred to."[36] It is as though Peter said that the sin of sodomy in particular is especially offensive to God and that the judgment of it is certain. Our generation needs this warning.

Daring ... "This is a shameless and irreverent daring."[37] A rather full description of the apostate teachers which will appear in the church is included in this and the following verses to the end of the chapter.

Rail at dignities ... This includes reviling "magistrates,"<38a> as Macknight said, but much more is meant. It is a loudmouthed, blasphemous declamation against all that is high, honorable, or holy. Authority of any or all kinds is anathema to this class. They have but one criterion, that being whatever their selfish, lustful desires may prompt them to do. There does not seem to be here any reference to speaking evil of angels; for the class of reprobates in view here would be incapable even of imagining the existence of such things as angels.

[36] David H. Wheaton, New Bible Commentary, Revised (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1970), p. 1255.

[37] R. H. Strachan, op. cit., p. 137.

<38a> James Macknight, op. cit., p. 547.