For if flying, and been happily freed from the pollutions, the abominations, and corruptions of a wicked world, be upon your guard, and take great care not to be entangled again in these dangerous snares and nets, lest your latter condition (as Christ said, Matthew xii. 45.) be worse than the former, lest you be like a dog that returns to his vomit, or like a sow that is washed and wallows again in the mire. (Witham)
2 PETER 2:20 kuri,ou @h`mw/n# kai. swth/roj VIhsou/ Cristou/ {C} On the one hand, the variation in position of h`mw/n (after kuri,ou and/or after swth/roj) seems to condemn the word as a scribal addi...
Verse 20. _THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD_] _Sin_ in general, and particularly superstition, idolatry, and lasciviousness. These are called μιασματα, _miasmata_, things that _infect, pollute_, and _defi...
FOR IF AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD - This does not necessarily mean that they had been true Christians, and had fallen from grace. People may outwardly reform, and escape from...
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)...
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...
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...
These people are waterless springs, mists driven by a squall of wind; and the gloom of darkness is reserved for them. With talk at once arrogant and futile, they ensnare by appeals to shameless, sensu...
POLLUTIONS. Greek. _miasma._ Only here. Compare 2 Peter 2:10. KNOWLEDGE. See 2 Peter 1:2; 2 Peter 1:3; 2 Peter 1:8. LORD. App-98
_For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world_ The word "escaped" had been used above (2 Peter 2:18) of the followers. Here, as the context shews, in the repetition of the word "overcome...
ἈΠΟΦΥΓΌΝΤΕΣ ΤᾺ ΜΙΆΣΜΑΤΑ ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΌΣΜΟΥ. We revert to the language of chapter 1. (2 Peter 1:4 ἀποφυγόντες τῆς ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ φθορᾶς). ἘΝ ἘΠΙΓΝΏΣΕΙ κ.τ.λ. 2 Peter 1:2. In the words δελεάζειν, ἀπο...
ΆΠΟΦΥΓΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΆΠΟΦΕΎΓΩ (G668) избегать, ΜΙΆΣΜΑ (G3393) осквернение. ΈΠΊΓΝΩΣΙΣ (G1922) признание, знание. ΈΜΠΛΑΚΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΜΠΛΈΚΩ (G1707) запутываться, путаться, Ή...
DISCOURSE: 2425 APOSTATES IN A WORSE STATE THAN EVER 2 Peter 2:20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again ent...
FOR IF AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED, &C.— _For inasmuch as having escaped._ See on 2 Peter 2:4. _The pollutions of the world, were idolatry, superstition, and vice._ By the _world_ we may understand here t...
2 PETER 2:20 FOR IF, AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE DEFILEMENTS OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED THEREIN AND OVERCOME, THE LAST STATE IS B...
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with the...
VERSE 20. FOR IF, AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED. By being taught of God, and learning thereby what we must do to become his children, which includes a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ; in short, have put...
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...
2:20 knowledge (b-13) _ Epignosis_ , see Note i, ch. 1.3....
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...
Knowledge of Christ is both the beginning and the end of Christian life: cp. 18 (RV). LATTER END] RV 'last state': cp. Matthew 12:45 and Hebrews 6:4; Hebrews 10:26....
‘The wicked ways of the world’ refers to all the people, societies and governments in the world who oppose God. The false teachers had once escaped from these wicked ways. They had learned about the *...
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...
FOR IF AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD. — Applying the general statement of the preceding verse to the case of these false teachers. In the _Shepherd_ of Hermas (I. _Vis._ IV. iii....
CHAPTER 25 ALTOGETHER BECOME ABOMINABLE 2 Peter 2:17 THE Apostle now describes these traitors to the cause of Christ under another aspect. They proffer themselves as guides and teachers. As such the...
_The consequences of falling away_. “The case of their victims is a serious one. They have escaped from the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and are once more entangled a...
Here, again, γὰρ loosely introduces the subject of the victims allured by the false teachers away from their former faith. τὰ μιάσματα τοῦ κόσμου. (Leviticus 7:8, Jer. 39:34), occurs only here in N.T....
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 b...
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...
BEWARE OF EMPTY PROMISES The false teachers, about whom Peter warned, used big words that sounded good but were empty. They lured those who had just escaped back into the ways of sin. Christians certa...
(9) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with...
"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...
20._For if after. _He again shews how pernicious was the sect which led men consecrated to God back again to their old filth and the corruptions of the world. And he exhibits the heinousness of the ev...
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...
FOR IF AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD,.... The sins of it, the governing vices of it, which the men of the world are addicted to, and immersed in; for the whole world lies in wick...
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them...
_For if after they_ The persons here spoken of as deluded; _have escaped the pollutions of the world_ The sins which pollute those who know not God; _through the knowledge of Christ_ That is, through...
THE LATTER END IS WORSE WITH THEM THAN THE BEGINNING; professors of religion who go back again into sin, become worse in character and condition than they were before....
The spiritual slavery of the false teachers and its consequences:...
FOR IF, AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED THEREIN AND OVERCOME, THE LATTER END IS WORSE WITH THEM...
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 2:20 ‘For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has...
17-22 The word of truth is the water of life, which refreshes the souls that receive it; but deceivers spread and promote error, and are set forth as empty, because there is no truth in them. As clou...
THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD; those more gross wickednesses in which most of the world still lieth, 1 JOHN 5:19. THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; such a knowledge of Christ a...
2 Peter 2:20 For G1063 if G1487 escaped G668 (G5631) pollutions G3393 world G2889 through G1722 knowledge G1922 Lord
ALL NEED TO CONSIDER WHAT FOLLOWING THIS TEACHING INVOLVES (2 PETER 2:20). It is often debated as to whether these following verses are spoken about the false teachers, or about both them and their fo...
‘For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state is become worse...
The description of the parties destined to spring up within the Church, which has been partially interrupted by the summary of Balaam's case, is resumed in direct terms. New points are pressed with th...
2 Peter 2:20 _._ FOR IF, HAVING ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, BUT HAVING BEEN AGAIN ENTANGLED IN THESE, THEY ARE OVERCOME, THE LAST things...
AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED (αποφυγοντες). Second aorist active participle here (see verse 2 Peter 2:18).THE DEFILEMENTS (τα μιασματα). Old word miasma, from μιαινω, here only in N.T. Our "miasma." T...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (1 John 2:15); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _ SAVIOUR ( See Scofield) - ...
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...
IF MEN HAVE ESCAPED. This includes the false teachers themselves, who had at one time escaped from sin through Jesus Christ. It is not enough to escape from sin: you must actively fill your life with...
_These are wells without water._ FALSE TEACHERS I. Their un-profitableness. “Wells without water.” 1. Pastors are like wells-- (1) For constancy. They keep their residence; men know where to find...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:20 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER for these false teachers never to have ESCAPED the world in the first place. They had the KNOWLEDGE OF... CHRIST. They then r
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....
_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. “Th...
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...
2 Peter 1:2; 2 Peter 1:4; 2 Peter 2:18; Deuteronomy 32:29; Hebrews 10
Pollutions [μ ι α σ μ α τ α]. Only here in New Testament. Compare ver. 2 Peter 2:1 0The word is transcribed in miasma. Entangled [ε μ π λ α κ ε ν τ ε ς]. Only here and 2 Timothy 2:4. The same metapho...
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...
For if after they — Who are thus ensnared. Have escaped the pollutions of the world — The sins which pollute all who know not God. Through the knowledge of Christ — That is, through faith in him, 2 Pe...
By escaping the pollutions of the world, understand their renouncing of them in baptism; their conversion from Heathenism to the profession of Christianity, by the knowledge of the gospel. Now, if aft...