Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Peter 2:9-22
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES2 Peter 2:10. Despise government.—Dominion. Both self-restraint and restraint of good rules and wise authorities. Those who own no superior. Evil of dignities.—Lit. “They tremble not while railing at glories.” “These men deny the existence of, or irreverently speak slightingly of, those spiritual agencies by means of which God conducts the government of the world.”2 Peter 2:11. Angels.—See Jude, 2 Peter 2:9. Allusion is evidently to some tradition which has not been... read more
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Peter 2:1-8
MISCHIEF-MAKERS AND MISCHIEF-MAKINGCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESTHE subject treated in this chapter is the mischievous influence of corrupting doctrine. And false doctrine is constantly treated in the New Treatment in view of the immoral associations which always attended it, as with the idolatries of older days. True doctrine works for righteousness; false doctrine works for licence. True prophets had been referred to in 2 Peter 1:21, and they suggest warnings against false prophets, and false... read more