2 Peter 2:16
What meaning of the 2 peter 2:16 in the Bible?
What does 2 Peter 2:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet."
What does 2 Peter 2:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet."
Verse 16. _THE DUMB ASS, SPEAKING WITH MAN'S VOICE_] Numbers 22:28, Numbers 22:28. _THE MADNESS OF THE PROPHET._] Is not this a reference to the speech of the ass, as represented in the Targums of Jo...
BUT WAS REBUKED FOR HIS INIQUITY - The object of Peter in this seems to be to show that God employed the very extraordinary means of causing the ass on which he rode to speak, because his iniquity was...
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 P...
The sins of the false teachers are now described licentiousness (2 Peter 2:10), audacious blasphemy (2 Peter 2:10), open profligacy (2 Peter 2:13), and covetousness like that of Balaam (2 Peter 2:15)....
FALSE PROPHETS (2 Peter 2:1) _ 2:1 There were times when false prophets arose among the people, even as amongst you too there will be false teachers, men who will insidiously introduce destructive he...
WAS REBUKED. had rebuke (Greek. _elenxis._ Only here). HIS. his own. INIQUITY. App-128. Only here. DUMB. See Acts 8:32. ASS. Greek. _hupozugion._ Only here and Matthew 21:5. SPEAKING. See Acts 4:...
_but was rebuked for his iniquity_ Literally, HAD A REBUKE FOR HIS TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. _the dumb ass speaking with man's voice_ The Greek word for "ass" is literally BEAST OF BURDEN. It is used,...
ἸΔΊΑΣ seems unnecessarily emphatic: it may not have been so intended by the writer. In later (and in modern) Greek the word tends to lose its force and become little more than a possessive. ΠΡΟΦΉΤΟΥ...
ΈΛΕΓΞΙΣ (G1649) упрек, ΈΣΧΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь; _aor._, получать, ΠΑΡΑΝΟΜΊΑ (G3892) беззаконие, преступление. Это не пренебрежение законом вообще, но скорее нарушение конкретного...
THE DUMB ASS SPEAKING, &C.— When Balaam laid aside his reason, and acted like a brute, then the brute animal, the _ass_ on which he rode, υποζυγιον, though naturally dumb, was, by the miraculous power...
_2. CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS AND DOXOLOGY, 2:14-18_ 2 Peter 2:14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; chil...
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. WAS REBUKED, [ elengxin (G1649) de (G1161) eschen (G2192)] - 'had a conviction:' an expos...
VERSE 16. BUT WAS REBUKED FOR HIS INIQUITY. God put words in the mouth of the brute he was riding, and he, was thereby forced to attend to the angel that blocked his 'passage....
The program of prophecy has gradually become clearer with added revelation. The preexile prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah know only...
WARNING AGAINST A THREATENED PLAGUE OF BRUTAL FALSE TEACHERS As of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads the Apostle to speak about the false teachers, who if th...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 FALSE TEACHERS Much of this chapter is similar to the letter of Jude. Some of the words are almost the same. Pe...
BUT WAS REBUKED FOR HIS INIQUITY. — Literally, _But had a conviction of his own transgression_ — _i.e.,_ was convicted of it, or rebuked for it. His transgression was that, although as a prophet he kn...
CHAPTER 24 "BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM" 2 Peter 2:10 THE Apostle now pictures in the darkest colors the evil-doing and evil character of those who are bringing into the Churches their "sect...
_Example of Balaam_. “They have left the straight way and wandered from it, having followed the way of Balaam, who loved the ways of wickedness, and was rebuked for his transgression, when a dumb ass...
THE DARK WAY OF ANIMALISM 2 Peter 2:12 The description of these false teachers is terrific! They are slaves to their brute instincts. They are as abusive as they are ignorant. They destroy and will...
Turning to the subject of the perils threatening the Church, two are referred to - false teachers, and a materialization of mind which follows on such teaching. As in old days there were false prophet...
A SAD PORTRAIT OF FALSE TEACHERS The false teachers, of whom Peter spoke, were like animals with no conscience going about taking whatever they could by force. Man usually destroys such animals becau...
"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (10) But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of unclean...
In the second Epistle of Peter (and here I must be brief, because of the hour; and I may be brief because Jude will afford us a further consideration of it) we have the same substantial truth of God's...
It may be here asked, by what right Balaam had the name of a prophet, when it appears that he was addicted to many wicked superstitions. To this I reply, that the gift of prophecy was so special, that...
The next two Chapter s set before us, on the other hand, the two forms of evil that characterise the last days the false and corrupt teaching of bad men, and the unbelief which denies the return of th...
BUT WAS REBUKED FOR HIS INIQUITY,.... Which was not merely going along with the messengers of Balak, for he had leave from the Lord so to do, Numbers 22:20; but going along with them with a desire to...
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. Ver. 16. _The dumb ass speaking_] The angel (some think) spake in the ass, as the devil had...
_But was rebuked for his iniquity_ In a very extraordinary manner; _the dumb ass_ On which he rode; _speaking with man's voice_ That is, in man's language; _forbade the madness of the prophet_ Namely,...
Balaam's example:...
But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in this chapter; and the day has come of which he has pr...
_ 2 Peter 2:16 ‘but he received. rebuke for his own transgression; for. dumb donkey, speaking with. voice of. man, restrained the madness of the prophet.'_ ‘BUT HE RECEIVED. REBUKE FOR HIS OWN TRANSG...
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 precept...
BUT WAS REBUKED; not only by the angel's speaking to him, but by the ass s, as follows. THE DUMB ASS SPEAKING WITH MAN'S VOICE, FORBADE; not in express words, that we read of, but the ass's speaking w...
Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus Nor is it difficult for God to open the mouth of a man devoted to Himself, and to inspire constancy and confidence in speech to Hi...
2 Peter 2:16 but G1161 was G2192 (G5627) rebuked G1649 his G2398 iniquity G3892 dumb G880 donkey G5268 speaking G5350 (G5674) with G1722 mans G444 voice G5456 restrained G2967 (G5656) madness G3913 pr...
PETER'S INDICTMENT OF THE FALSE PREACHERS (2 PETER 2:10). Peter accuses the false teachers, who are in total contrast to Noah and Lot, both of whom had had connections with angelic beings in one way...
The second chapter of the Epistle stands entirely by itself. It is of so peculiar a character, that some have doubted whether it belonged originally to this Epistle, or could have been written by the...
BUT HE WAS REBUKED (ελεγξιν δε εσχεν). "But he had rebuke." Second aorist active indicative of εχω and accusative of ελεγξις (late word from ελεγχω, a periphrasis for ελεγχω, here only in N.T.FOR H...
CONTENTS: Warnings concerning apostate teachers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Noah, Lot, Balaam. CONCLUSION: Where God sends His true messengers with His Word, the devil always sends some to seduce and...
2 Peter 2:1. _False teachers who bring in damnable heresies._ Sects leading to perdition, and to the extreme of punishment. Who were they? They were yet to come, in part; the roots only began as yet t...
AND WAS REBUKED. See Numbers 22:28-31. The false teachers claimed the things they were doing was based on special knowledge that God had given them. Peter here implies that what they are doing is real...
_Following the way of Balaam._ BALAAM I. We begin with the good part of the character of Balaam. Balaam was a true prophet of God. He was the last prophet under the patriarchal dispensation. He had...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:1 Evaluation of False Teachers. In this third main section of his letter, Peter criticizes the false teachers, using biblical illustrations to do so. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = docu...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 2 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. “T...
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 na...
False prophets have always been around. Now they don't wear signs, "I'm a false prophet". They come in sheep's clothing. They look like sheep. They come sometimes dripping with love and phrases of lov...
Acts 26:11; Acts 26:24; Acts 26:25; Ecclesiastes 7:25; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Hosea 9:7; Luke 16:11; Numbers 22:22...
Was rebuked [ε λ ε γ ξ ι ν ε σ χ ε ν]. Lit., had a rebuke. The word for rebuke only here in New Testament. For his iniquity [ι δ ι α ς π α ρ α ν ο μ ι α ς]. Rev., his own transgression. His own, see...
TIMELY WARNINGS 2 Peter 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It has been said that "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." If God had not told us the things which would surely come, to pass, we would not be prepa...
The beast — Though naturally dumb....