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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:20-22

All Need To Consider What Following This Teaching Involves (2 Peter 2:20-22 ). It is often debated as to whether these following verses are spoken about the false teachers, or about both them and their followers. Certainly Revelation 2:22 would suggest the latter. And this would seem to be confirmed by the reference in 2 Peter 2:18 to those who having recently been rescued from the world of sin and corruption are in danger of returning to it under false colours. Thus this would seem to be a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:21

‘For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.’ And the sad thing for many of these people was that just as they were learning about the way of righteousness, and about Christ’s holy teaching, and were almost ready for full response, they were being turned back from it into the ways of these false teachers. And the same was true for the false teachers themselves. They too had been... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:22

‘It has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.’ What has simply happened is what the old proverb said, they have reverted to nature. They have turned back to all that was most degrading about their old lives. The dog has turned back to his vomit. The thought is perhaps of the scavenger dog which, when it can find no other food, returns to the remains over which it has previously vomited, or... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-9

2 Peter 2:1-1 Samuel : . As there were false prophets in Israel, so there will arise false teachers among the faithful. (Writing from the assumed standpoint of the apostolic age, he projects their coming into the future; in 2 Peter 2:10 they are regarded as already active; cf. 2 Peter 3:3 ; 2 Peter 3:17.) By their vicious lives they will deny the Master who bought them. Many will follow them, thus causing the Gentiles to blaspheme the Church. But their punishment is certain. God’ s... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:10-17

2 Peter 2:10-Esther : . The sins of the false teachers are now described— licentiousness ( 2 Peter 2:10), audacious blasphemy ( 2 Peter 2:10-2 Kings :), open profligacy ( 2 Peter 2:13), and covetousness like that of Balaam ( 2 Peter 2:15). They are as worthless as springs without water, and their end is blackness of darkness. The whole section is based on Jude 1:8-Ezra :.* 2 P. softens the severity of Jude’ s language and rearranges the order. He expands the reference to Balaam and omits... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:18-22

2 Peter 2:18-Song of Solomon : . Uttering vain words they snare in the lusts of the flesh those who were just escaping (or, had actually escaped) from heathen vices, promising them liberty, while all the time they are themselves the slaves of sin. Having once been rescued from the defilements of the world, they have again become enslaved, and their last state is worse than their first; better to remain a heathen than become an apostate. 2 Peter 2:22 . The first proverb is found in Proverbs... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:1

But there were false prophets also: the apostle having been exhorting them to continuance and progress in faith, admonishes them here of such as might labour to draw them from it; and having made mention of the Old Testament prophets, holy men of God, he hereby takes occasion to tell them of, and caution them against, false teachers which would be among themselves. This also in the text plainly relates to what went before: q.d. Together with those prophets which were sent by God, there were... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:2

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; Greek, their destructions, i.e. those ways of error which are attended with destruction (the effect being put for the cause by a metonymy); and the sense is, that as these false teachers shall bring destruction upon themselves by their heresies; so others, running with them into the same errors, shall fall into the same destruction. By reason of whom; or, by whom, viz. these false teachers, or their followers, or both. The way of truth; the gospel,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:3

With feigned words; deceitful speeches, which have a show of truth to hide their errors. Make merchandise of you; as of slaves or beasts: it seems to be a metaphor taken from merchants that speak great things of bad wares, the better to vend them; the sense is, with specious words, and pious pretences, they shall deceive you to make a gain of you. Whose judgment; or, condemnation. Now of a long time; being of old determined by God, and foretold in the Scripture, and so nearer than they... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell: elsewhere called the deep, Luke 8:31, and the bottomless pit, Revelation 9:1; Revelation 11:7; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 20:1,Revelation 20:3. This implies a change: 1. Of the state of those sinning angels, that whereas before it was the highest among the creatures, now it is the lowest. 2. Of their place, that whereas they were before the throne of God with the rest of the angels, they are now thrust down into a lower... read more

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