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2 Peter 2:1-3
A Warning against the False Teachers of All Times.
The false teachers and their judgment:
A Warning against the False Teachers of All Times.
The false teachers and their judgment:
CHAPTER II. _False teachers foretold, who shall bring in destructive_ _doctrines and shall pervert many, but at last be destroyed by_ _the judgments of God_, 1-3. _Instances of God's judgments in...
BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE - In the previous chapter, 2 Peter 2:19, Peter had appealed to the prophecies as containing unanswerable proofs of the truth of the Christian religi...
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)...
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...
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...
WERE. arose. FALSE PROPHETS. Greek. _pseudoprophetes._ Compare Matthew 24:11; Matthew 24:24.Luke 6:26; Acts 13:6;...
_But there were false prophets also among the people_ The section of the Epistle which now opens contains so many parallelisms with the Epistle of St Jude that we can scarcely avoid the conclusion tha...
ΈΓΈΝΟΝΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, являться, возникать. ΚΑΊ (G2532) также, тоже. Кроме святых, которые изрекали под действием вдохновения Слово Божье, были и лжепророки...
BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS— The false apostles, prophets, and teachers among the Christians, gave rise to the sects of the _Ebionites, Cerinthians, Nicolaitans, Carpocratians,_ and _Gnostics,_ of w...
III. THE FALSE TEACHER: HIS DOCTRINES, CHARACTERISTICS, INFLUENCES, AND DOOM 2 Peter 2:1-22 CHAPTER II 2 Peter 2:1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall...
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring u...
VERSE 1. BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS AMONG THE PEOPLE. In paying heed to prophets, I meant, of course, true prophets prophets of God. I now to you say that there were among the people of Israel fals...
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...
2:1 who (a-19) _ Hostis_ , as Matthew 7:24 . deny (b-29) Lit. 'and denying.' It refers to false teachers, not heresies. master (c-31) 'Despot,' as Acts 4:24 ; 1 Timothy 6:1 ,...
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...
DAMNABLE HERESIES] RV 'destructive heresies.' The word 'heresy' is passing here from its older meaning of a 'school' or 'sect' (RM) to the modern meaning of 'false doctrine': cp. Acts 24:14; 1 Corinth...
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...
FIRST PREDICTION: False teachers shall have great success and certain ruin (2 Peter 2:1). (1) BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO. — To bring out the contrast between true and false prophets more stron...
CHAPTER 23 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER 2 Peter 2:1 THIS second chapter contains much more of a direct description of the heretical teaching and practices from which the converts were in danger,...
ψευδοπροφῆται ἐν τῷ λαῷ. ἐν τῷ λαῷ is used for the chosen people in LXX. ψευδοπροφῆται. A class of False Prophets is frequently mentioned in the O.T. In the earlier ages it is not suggested that there...
_The False Teachers and their Judgment_. “Yet there were also false prophets in the ancient community, just as among you there will be false teachers. They will not hesitate to introduce alongside the...
DOOM AND DELIVERANCE 2 Peter 2:1 Already the early Church was threatened with destructive heresies introduced by men who desired only their self-aggrandizement. All the Apostles give warning against...
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...
DESTRUCTIVE DOCTRINES In stark contrast to Holy Spirit inspired prophets who spoke true words that gave light, there were false prophets who led the people astray (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Isaiah 28:16-17;...
But (1) there were false prophets also among the (a) people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and...
_Lying teachers among you, some of which were already come, and many more were to follow, who shall bring in sects, [1] (heresies) leading to perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them, denying the...
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring u...
CONTENTS "We have in this Chapter a very awful Account of the latter-day Heresies. But, while the Holy Ghost graciously, informs the Church of those Seasons, he as graciously teacheth the Church how...
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...
1._But there were. _As weak consciences are usually very grievously and dangerously shaken, when false teachers arise, who either corrupt or mutilate the doctrine of faith, it was necessary for the Ap...
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 THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE,.... As well as holy men of God, who gave out prophecies, by the inspiration and impulse of the Holy Spirit; that is, among the people of the Jews,...
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring up...
_But_ Now that I am speaking of the divinely-inspired Jewish prophets, whose writings you must give heed to, I must remind you that _there were also false prophets among the people_ Of Israel, whose d...
FALSE PROPHETS; in allusion to the "more sure word of prophecy" spoken of in chap 2 Peter 1:19; as much as to say, I have indeed commended to you the study of the prophets; but beware of the false pro...
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 2:1 ‘But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought...
1-9 Though the way of error is a hurtful way, many are always ready to walk therein. Let us take care we give no occasion to the enemy to blaspheme the holy name whereby we are called, or to speak ev...
2 PETER CHAPTER 2 2 PETER 2:1 The apostle foretelleth the appearance of false teachers, the impiety of them and their followers, and the judgments that would overtake them. 2 PETER 2:7 The godly shall...
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics neither ought their existence to surprise us, for it was foretold that they should come to pass;[3] Dubious Hippolytus Fragments And there shall be fals...
2 Peter 2:1 But G1161 were G1096 (G5633) also G2532 prophets G5578 among G1722 people G2992 even G2532 as...
THE FALSE TEACHERS, THEIR MESSAGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (2 PETER 2:1). The future tense here is probably intended simply to be a general future. The point is that the false teachers are at present amo...
‘But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will surreptitiously bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them,...
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...
2 Peter 2:1. BUT THERE AROSE ALSO FALSE PROPHETS AMONG THE PEOPLE. Israel is obviously meant by ‘the people' here (comp. Romans 15:11; Jude 1:5, etc.). As in the former Epistle, therefore, so here Pet...
BUT THERE AROSE (εγενοντο δε). Second aorist middle indicative of γινομα (cf. γινετα in 2 Peter 1:20).FALSE PROPHETS ALSO (κα ψευδοπροφητα). In contrast with the true prophets just pictured in 2 P...
2 Peter 2:1. _But there were false prophets also among the people,_ How true that is still! Be not startled, brethren, as though some strange thing had happened to us in this generation. It always wa...
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...
FALSE PROPHETS. "In speaking about God's true prophets, I must remind you that there were also false prophets among the people in the past, and in the same way you must expect false teachers to appear...
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....
MISCHIEF-MAKERS AND MISCHIEF-MAKING _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE subject treated in this chapter is the mischievous influence of corrupting doctrine. And false doctrine is constantly treated i...
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...
1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Corinthians 7:23; 1 John 2:18;...
But. Introducing a contrast with those who spake by the Holy Ghost (ch. 1 21). There were [ε γ ε ν ο ν τ ο]. Rev., better, there arose. There shall be. Note that Peter speaks of them as future, and...
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...
But there were false prophets also — As well as true. Among the people — Of Israel. Those that spake even the truth, when God had not sent them; and also those that were truly sent of him, and yet cor...
Observe here, 1. How the apostle foretels the coming of false teachers into the gospel-church, as there had been false prophets in the Jewish church; no age of the church ever was or will be free of t...