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2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.
Verse 17. _THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER_] Persons who, by their profession, should furnish _the water of life_ to souls athirst for salvation; but they have not this water; they are _teachers_ witho...
THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER - Jude 1:12 employs several other epithets to describe the same class of persons. The language employed both by Peter and Jude is singularly terse, pointed, and emphatic....
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...
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...
WELLS. Greek. _pege_. Always translated "fountain", except here and John 4:6; John 4:14. WITHOUT WATER. Greek. _anudros._ Only here; Matthew 12:43 (dry)....
_These are wells without water_ In the parallel passage of St Jude (2 Peter 2:12) we have "_clouds_without water." In St Peter's variation we may, perhaps, trace an allusive reference to our Lord's te...
“Waterless springs and mists driven by a gale: for whom darkness is reserved.” In Jude the list of comparisons is longer; Waterless clouds, barren trees, wild waves, wandering stars, for whom darkness...
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THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER, &C.— When a thirsty person goes to a fountain to drink, and finds it dried up, and there is nothing but an empty pit, he is greatly disappointed. These false teachers pr...
_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...
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. WELLS - "clouds," in Jude 1:12, both promising (cf. 2 Peter 2:19) water, but...
VERSE 17. THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER. These teachers, although they profess to teach much of profit, in fact have no instruction to impart; they promise much, but the disappointment is great. CLO...
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...
WELLS WITHOUT WATER, etc.] RV 'spring without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.' The false teachers are as disappointing as springs without wat...
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...
Peter used picture language to describe the false teachers. People go to a well to get water. The water keeps them alive. Some wells contain no water. They may look good but a dry well is not useful....
THESE ARE WELLS. — Or, _springs;_ same word as John 4:6. These men are like dried-up watering-places in the desert, which entice and mock the thirsty traveller; perhaps leading him into danger also by...
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...
πηγαὶ … ἐλαυνόμεναι. It is interesting to compare the expressions in 2 Peter here with Jude 1:12. It would appear as though he had felt that νεφέλαι ἄνυδροι was a contradiction in terms, and instead h...
_The Libertines are themselves slaves_. “They are like waterless wells, and mists that the wind disperses. For them is reserved the fate of gloomy darkness. They utter ponderous nothings, and allure 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...
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...
(8) These are (o) wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of (p) darkness is reserved for ever. (8) Another note by which it may be known what manner of men they...
_These are fountains without water. The like lively description is given of the manners of these heretics by St. Jude, so that the text of one of these apostles helps to expound the other. (Witham)_...
"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...
17._These are wells, _or _fountains_, _without water. _He shews by these two metaphors, that they had nothing within, though they made a great display. A fountain, by its appearance, draws men to itse...
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...
THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER,.... Which look large and deep, promise much, and have nothing in them; so these men looked like angels of light, transformed themselves as ministers of righteousness, ha...
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. Ver. 17. _These are wells, &c._] Not fitted nor filled with wholesome doctrin...
_These are wells without water_, &c. Pretenders to knowledge and piety, but really destitute thereof; _clouds_ Promising fertilizing showers of instructive and edifying doctrine, but yielding none; _c...
THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER; an apt description of these boastful false teachers who came under the guise of godly men, but who had no true goodness themselves, and could impart no profit to their f...
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 2:17 ‘These are springs without water, and mists driven by. storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.'_ ‘SPRINGS WITHOUT WATER' -1. ‘describes the unsatisfactory nature of the fa...
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...
THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER: he compares seducers: 1. To _wells without water; _ because as a well invites a traveller to it in hope of quenching his thirst, but being without water, mocks his expe...
2 Peter 2:17 These G3778 are G1526 (G5748) wells G4077 water G504 clouds G3507 carried G1643 (G5746) by...
‘These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.' What his readers must recognise is what that these men are. They are springs witho...
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 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 2:17. THESE ARE SPRINGS WITHOUT WATER. The noun is the same as that used of Jacob's _well_ in John 4:6. It means, however, a spring-well or fountain. It is possible that the figure points to t...
WITHOUT WATER (ανυδρο). As in Matthew 12:43; Luke 11:24. Old word for common and disappointing experience of travellers in the orient.MISTS (ομιχλα). Old word for fog, here alone in N.T.DRIVEN BY...
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...
DRIED-UP SPRINGS. The East is dry, with few springs and little rain. It was a tragic disappointment for a thirsty traveler to come to a spring and find it dried-up. Peter says the false teachers are l...
_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 2:1 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 2:17 The false teachers are WATERLESS SPRINGS and MISTS DRIVEN by the wind. They appear to be beneficial, but they are empty. The gloom of utter darkness has been reserved
_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 2:4; Ephesians 4:14; Hosea 6:4; Jeremiah 14:3; Job 6:14;...
Wells [π η γ α ι]. Better, as Rev., springs; yet the Rev. has retained well at John 4:14, where the change would have given more vividness to Christ's metaphor, which is that of an ever upleaping, liv...
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...
Fountains and clouds promise water: so do these promise, but do not perform....
Still our apostle proceeds in characterising and describing these seducers, which were then amongst them. He describing them before by their luxury and licentiousness, by their incontinency and unclea...