Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
2 Peter 2:15
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
2 PETER 2:15 Boso,r {A} The reading Boso,r, a name not found elsewhere, is strongly supported by almost all Greek manuscripts, and by most early versions. The reading Bew,r, found in B 453 vgmss syrp...
Verse 15. _WHICH HAVE FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY_] As Balaam did, who, although God showed him the right way, took one contrary to it, preferring the reward offered him by Balak to the approbation and ble...
WHICH HAVE FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY - The straight path of honesty and integrity. Religion is often represented as a straight path, and to do wrong is to go out of that path in a crooked way. FOLLOWING...
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)...
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 ...
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...
They have left the straight road and have gone awandering, and have followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the profit which unrighteousness brings and who was convicted of his lawless...
BALAAM. See Numbers 22:5 note. BOSOR. See 2Pe 22:5 (note). Some texts read "Beor". LOVED. App-135. WAGES. Same as reward, 2 Peter 2:13....
_which have forsaken the right way_ There may possibly be a reference to "the way of truth" in 2 Peter 2:2 and to the general use of "the way" for the sum and substance of the doctrine of Christ. (See...
ἘΞΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΉΣΑΝΤΕΣ, for the third time in this Epistle (2 Peter 1:16; 2 Peter 2:2). The sentence about Balaam is loosely constructed. There are some various readings. For Βεὼρ (B and two versions) Βόσορ...
WHICH HAVE FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY,— It is called _the way of righteousness,_ 2 Peter 2:21 which leads to happiness; but turning aside to error and vice, is wandering out of the way into forbidden path...
_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...
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; HAVE. Some seducers are spoken of as already come, others...
VERSE 15. WHICH HAVE FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY. These false teachers have wandered from the strait and narrow way which leads to life. FOLLOWING THE WAY OF BALAAM. Balaam loved the wages given for wro...
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...
BOSOR] RV 'Beor,' as in Numbers 22:5, Balaam, as we learn from Revelation 2:14, taught Balak to try and ruin the Israelites by tempting them to uncleanness, and Balak had already offered him rewards ...
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...
The account of Balaam is in the *Old Testament (Numbers, Chapter s 22-24). Balak, the king of Moab, wanted Balaam to speak bad things against the *Jews. Balak even offered to pay Balaam. At first Bala...
THE RIGHT WAY. — (Comp. Acts 13:10.) In the _Shepherd of_ Hermas (I. _Vis._ III. vii. 1) we have “Who have believed indeed, but through their doubting _have forsaken their true way.”_ (See Notes on 2...
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 "sects...
τῇ ὁδῷ τοῦ Βαλαὰμ. The comparison of the conduct of the False Teachers to that of Balaam is significant as determining their character and motive (see Introduction, pp. 115 ff.). The writer of 2 Peter...
_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 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...
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 becaus...
In this they are like _Balaam, of Bosor, (a town of the Madianites) who coveting the reward promised him, (Judges xi.) was willing, if God had permitted him, to have cursed the people of Israel: but G...
"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...
As he has hitherto referred to the injury they did by the example of a perverse and corrupt life, so he again repeats, that they spread by their teaching the deadly poison of impiety, in order that th...
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...
WHICH HAVE FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY,.... The right way of the Lord, the way of truth, the Gospel of truth; or Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life; the true way to eternal life, and which is...
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam _the son_ of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; Ver. 15. _The wages of unrighteousness_] The mammon of...
_Which have forsaken the right_ Ευθειαν, _straight; way_ The way of truth and integrity, _and are gone astray_ Have wandered in dangerous and destructive paths; _following the way of Balaam the son of...
BOSOR; answering to the Hebrew Beor. Numbers 22:5. WHO LOVED THE WAGES OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS; he desired permission to curse Israel that he might receive from Balak the promised reward. Numbers 22:1-41....
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 2:15 ‘forsaking the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,'_ ‘FORSAKING THE RIGHT WAY' -‘forsaking'-‘to...
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 precep...
THE RIGHT WAY; the _way of truth,_ 2 PETER 2:2, i.e. the way of faith and holiness, which is the only right way to happiness. ARE GONE ASTRAY; into the by-paths of error. There is but one right way, a...
2 Peter 2:15 forsaken G2641 (G5631) right G2117 way G3598 astray G4105 (G5681) following G1811 (G5660) way...
‘Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrongdoing; Indeed these teachers can be compared to Balaam (Numbers 22-24). Forsa...
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...
2 Peter 2:15. FORSAKING THE STRAIGHT WAY THEY WENT ASTRAY, HAVING FOLLOWED THE WAY OF BALAAM THE SON OF BOSOR, WHO LOVED THE WAGES OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (or, _wrong-doing)._ The strong verb for a _follow...
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...
FORSAKING (καταλειποντες). Present active participle of καταλειπω (continually leaving) or καταλιποντες (second aorist active), having left.THE RIGHT WAY (ευθειαν οδον). "The straight way" of 1 Sa...
BALAAM Balaam (_ See Scofield) - (Numbers 22:5) _ was the typical hireling prophet, anxious only to make a market of his gift. This is the "way" of Balaam. See the "error" of Balaam, (_ See Scofi...
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...
LEFT THE STRAIGHT PATH. Balaam sold out to an evil cause, for the money that was in it. See Revelation 2:14 and note....
_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....
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:15 THEY HAVE FOLLOWED THE WAY OF BALAAM (see Numbers 22:1). They spend their lives gaining things at other people’s expense. But God can use
_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...
1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Samuel 12:23; Acts 1:18; Acts 13:10;...
Right [ε υ θ ε ι α ν]. Lit., straight, which is the radical meaning of right. Are gone astray [α π λ α ν η θ η σ α ν]. See on Mark 12:24. Following [ε ξ α κ ο λ ο υ θ η σ α ν τ ε ς]. See on ch. 2 Pete...
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 way of Balaam the son of Bosor — So the Chaldeans pronounced what the Jews termed Beor; namely, the way of covetousness. Who loved — Earnestly desired, though he did not dare to take, the reward o...
Our apostle, having charged these men with insatiable lust in the former verse, proceeds next to tax them with insatiable covetousness in this verse, declaring that this sin had diverted them from the...