2 Peter 2:14

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: FULL OF ADULTERY. B C [ moichalidos (G3428)], 'an adulteress,' as though they carried about adulteresses always in their eyes-the avenue of lust (Horneius). Bengel, 'the adulteress who fills their eyes is alluring desire' ['Aleph (') A, moichalias (G3428)]. THAT CANNOT CEASE - `that cannot be made to cease from sin.' [ Akatapaustous (G180), 'Aleph (') C; akatapastous (an Hellenistic form, from pazoo, the same as pauomai (G3973), A B).] Beguiling...

14._Beguiling, _or _baiting_, _unstable souls. _By the metaphor of _baiting _he reminds the faithful to beware of their hidden and deceitful arts; for he compares their impostures to hooks which may catch the unwary to their destruction. By adding _unstable souls _he shews the reason for caution, that is, when we have not struck firm roots in faith and in the fear of the Lord: and he intimates at the same time, that they have no excuse who suffer themselves to be baited or lured by such flatteries; for this must have been ascribed to their levity. Let there be then a stability of faith, and we shall be safe from the artifices of the ungodly. _An heart they have exercised with covetous practices, _or, _with lusts_. Erasmus renders the last word, “rapines.” The word is of a doubtful meaning. I prefer “lusts.” As he had before condemned incontinence in their eyes, so he now seems to refer t...

10-16 Impure seducers and their abandoned followers, give themselves up to their own fleshly minds. Refusing to bring every thought to the obedience of Christ, they act against God's righteous precepts. They walk after the flesh, they go on in sinful courses, and increase to greater degrees of impurity and wickedness. They also despise those whom God has set in authority over them, and requires them to honour. Outward temporal good things are the wages sinners expect and promise themselves. And none have more cause to tremble, than those who are bold to gratify their sinful lusts, by presuming on the Divine grace and mercy. Many such there have been, and are, who speak lightly of the restraints of God's law, and deem themselves freed from obligations to obey it. Let Christians stand at a distance from such....

Verse 14. _HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY_] μοιχαλιδος. _Of an_ _adulteress_; being ever bent on the gratification of their sensual desires, so that they are represented as having _an adulteress_ _constantly before their eyes_, and that their eyes can take in no other object but _her_. But instead of μοιχαλιδος of an _adulteress,_ the _Codex Alexandrinus_, three others, with the _Coptic, Vulgate_, and one copy of the _Itala_, together with several of the _fathers_, have μοιχαλιας, _of adultery_. _CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN_] _Which cease not from sin_; they might cease from sin, but they do not; they love and practise it. Instead of ακαταπαυστους, _which cannot cease_, several MSS. and versions have ακαταπαυστου, and this requires the place to be read, _Having eyes full of adultery and incessant sin_. The images of sinful acts were continually floating before their disordered

HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY - Margin, as in the Greek, “an adulteress;” that is, gazing with desire after such persons. The word “full” is designed to denote that the corrupt passion referred to had wholly seized and occupied their minds. The eye was, as it were, full of this passion; it saw nothing else but some occasion for its indulgence; it expressed nothing else but the desire. The reference here is to the sacred festival mentioned in the previous verse; and the meaning is, that they celebrated that festival with licentious feelings, giving free indulgence to their corrupt desires by gazing on the females who were assembled with them. In the passion here referred to, the “eye” is usually the first offender, the inlet to corrupt desires, and the medium by which they are expressed. Compare the notes at Matthew 5:28. The wanton glance is a principal occasion o

EXPOSITION 2 PETER 2:1 BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE; rather, as in the Revised Version, _but there arose false prophets also among the people. _The transition is simple and natural. Besides the true prophets mentioned in the last chapter, who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, there arose false prophets, men who wore "a rough garment to deceive" (Zechariah 13:4), and assumed without warrant the prophetic character. Such pretenders would commonly prophesy false things; but the word ψευδοπροφῆται_ _seems principally to imply the absence of a Divine mission. By "the people" (λαός) is meant the people of Israel, as in Romans 15:

HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY,.... For the seventh command is not only violated by unclean actions, and obscene words, but also by unchaste looks: and so the Jews explain k that precept, "thou shalt not commit adultery", Exodus 20:14; you shall not go after your hearts, nor after "your eyes"; says R. Levi, the heart and the "eye" are sin's two brokers.'' Hence we read l of נואף בעיניו, "one that commits adultery with his eyes"; Matthew 5:28; compare Job 31:1. Some read the words, "having eyes full of the adulteress": that is, having a lewd and infamous woman always in mind and sight, continually looking at her and lusting after her: AND THAT CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN: which may be

SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...

2 PETER 2:14 moicali,doj {A} Instead of moicali,doj (“an adulteress”), which is strongly supported by î72 B C 81 and most minuscules, Y _al_ read moicei,aj (“adultery”), while a A 33 _al_ read moicali,aj, a word not known elsewhere....

II. THE EVIL TO COME THROUGH FALSE TEACHERS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The source of the evil (2 Peter 2:1)_ 2. The lessons from the past. (2 Peter 2:4) 3. The description of the apostates (2 Peter 2:11) 2 Peter 2:1 The Apostle Peter is now being used by the Spirit of God to prophesy. He predicts the coming evil for the professing church, that apostate teachers would do their vicious work. As pointed out in the introduction every other writer of the Epistles bears the same witness and that witness is mostly found in the second Epistles and in the Epistle of Jude. (See...