Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Peter 2:10
Chiefly them that walk after the flesh — Corrupt nature; particularly in the lust of uncleanness. And despise government — The authority of their governors. Dignities — Persons in authority.
Chiefly them that walk after the flesh — Corrupt nature; particularly in the lust of uncleanness. And despise government — The authority of their governors. Dignities — Persons in authority.
Verse 10. _BUT CHIEFLY THEM THAT WALK_] That is, God will in the most signal manner punish them that walk after the flesh- addict themselves to sodomitical practices, and the _lust of_ _pollution_; pr...
BUT CHIEFLY - That is, it may be presumed that the principles just laid down would be applicable in an eminent degree to such persons as he proceeds to designate. THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH - That liv...
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 ...
If God did not spare even angels who had sinned, but condemned them to the lowest hell and committed them to the pits of darkness, where they remain kept for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient...
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...
UNCLEANNESS. Greek. _miasmos._ Only here. Compare 2 Peter 2:20. GOVERNMENT. dominion. Greek. _kuriotes._ See Ephesians 1:21.Jude 1:8. PRESUMPTUOUS. Daring. Greek. _tolmetes_. Only here. self willed.
_but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness_ Literally, in the lust of DEFILEMENT, the genitive being either that of a characterising attribute, or implying that those of wh...
With this verse the writer returns to the denunciation of the false teachers. Like the angels, the men before the Flood, the men of Sodom, they had sinned through lust. ὈΠΊΣΩ ΣΑΡΚΌΣ in Jude 1:7. ἘΠΙ...
ΜΆΛΙΣΤΑ (G3122) особенно, ΟΠΊΣΩ (G3694) с _gen._ после. Фраза ΤΟΥΣ ΌΠΊΣ ΣΑΡΚΌΣ "их, которые идут вслед плоти" обозначает содомитов (Green), ΕΠΙΘΥΜΊΑ (G1939) сильное желание, похоть, страсть, ΜΙΑΣΜΌ...
BUT CHIEFLY THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH— The Lord knoweth how to keep all the wicked unto the day of judgment, to be then punished: but (though none oftheunrighteousshallescapeunpunished,)he will m...
2 PETER 2:10-11 BUT CHIEFLY THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH IN THE LUST OF DEFILEMENT, AND DESPISE DOMINION. DARING, SELF-WILLED, THEY TREMBLE NOT TO RAIL AT DIGNITIES: WHEREAS ANGELS, THOUGH GREATER I...
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. CHIEFLY - they especi...
VERSE 10. BUT CHIEFLY TO THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH. A class of persons are here described minutely, false teachers heretofore mentioned included, and of the punishment that awaits them, the inspi...
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...
2:10 dignities. (i-28) Lit. 'glories.'...
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...
God will especially *judge the false teachers. They satisfied all the wicked desires of their bodies. This refers to wrong acts of sex. They would not obey anyone’s authority. They certainly did not c...
THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH. — Less definite than Jude 1:7. Here there is nothing about going _away_ or _astray,_ nor about the flesh being “other” than is allowed. This is natural; Jude’s remark a...
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...
2 Peter 2:4-10 _a_. _A historical illustration of the Divine judgment on the wicked, and care of the righteous_. “God spared not angels who sinned, but having cast them into Tartarus, gave them over t...
_a_. μάλιστα δὲ τοὺς ὀπίσω σαρκὸς … πορευομένους, “especially those who follow the flesh as their leader”. _Cf._ Matthew 4:19; 1 Timothy 5:15. In Isaiah 65:2 we have πορευομένοις … ὀπίσω τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν...
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...
GOD'S SURE DELIVERANCE Again, Peter sought to show that God will save any righteous who may be found among the wicked. Lot was worn out with worry over the sin he saw all around him. What Lot saw and...
(5) But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous [are they], selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of (k) dignities. (5) He goes...
_Especially those who walk after the flesh, &c. Such were the Gnostics, and divers of the first heretics, as well as many of them in after ages, who despise authority, contemn the laws, both of church...
"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...
10._But chiefly them. _He comes here to particulars, accommodating a general doctrine to his own purpose; for he had to do with men of desperate wickedness. He then shews that dreadful vengeance neces...
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 CHIEFLY THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH,.... Not merely after the dictates of corrupt nature, as all men, and even God's elect do, in a state of unregeneracy; but "after strange flesh", as Judges 1...
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous _are they_, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Ver. 10. _But chief...
_But chiefly them that walk after the flesh_ Their corrupt nature; particularly _in the lusts of uncleanness_ Which are especially detestable in the eye of God; and the crimes they commit so much rese...
BUT CHIEFLY THEM; that is, but especially those of the unjust men just spoken of. DIGNITIES; such magistrates and persons in official or elevated stations as God requires should be treated with respe...
A further characterization of the false teachers:...
BUT CHIEFLY THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH IN THE LUST OF UNCLEANNESS, AND DESPISE GOVERNMENT. St. Peter here substantiates his statement concerning the punishment which is sure to strike the false te...
Examples from History:...
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...
GOVERNMENT: Or, dominion...
_ 2 Peter 2:10 ‘and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,'_ Deadly Preacher...
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...
BUT CHIEFLY THEM: the apostle here applies the general doctrine delivered to false teachers, whose character he gives in several particulars; the sense is, that God reserves all wicked men to the day...
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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...
‘But chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities (literally ‘glories'), whereas angels, though gr...
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...
CHIEFLY (μαλιστα). Especially. He turns now to the libertine heretics (verses 2 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 2:7).AFTER THE FLESH (οπισω σαρκος). Hebraistic use of οπισω as with αμαρτιων (sins) in Isaiah 65...
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...
ESPECIALLY. "If God will punish sinners of all kinds, he will especially punish those who follow filthy bodily lusts and despise God's authority." _These filthy bodily lusts_ are the perversions of hu...
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 2:4 Peter turns to a detailed argument proving God’s certain judgment on the false teachers. Four times he uses a lesser-to-greater method of argument (if A is true, how much m...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:9 Having stated his minor premises, Peter moves now to his major premise (see note on vv. 4–10a): “If” vv. 2 Peter 2:4 are true,...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:10 The false teachers BLASPHEME THE GLORIOUS ONES, probably evil angels (v. 2 Peter 2:11; compare...
_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 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Kings 12:16; 1 Peter 2:13; 1 Peter 2:14;...
Go after the flesh. Compare Jude 1:7. Of uncleanness [μ ι α σ μ ο υ]. Only here in New Testament. See on defilements, ver. 20. Compare Jude 1:8. Despise government. Rev., dominion. Compare Jude 1:8....
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...
As if the apostle had said, "Though God reserves all wicked men to punishment, yet especially heretics and seducers, who second their corrupt doctrine with. wicked conversation, wuch as WALK AFTER THE...