Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Peter 2:12
Savage as brute beasts — Several of which in the present disordered state of the world, seem born to be taken and destroyed.
Savage as brute beasts — Several of which in the present disordered state of the world, seem born to be taken and destroyed.
Verse 12. _BUT THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS_] ωςαλογαζωα φυσικα. _As those natural animals void of reason_, following only the gross instinct of nature, being governed neither by reason nor religion...
BUT THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS - These persons, who resemble so much irrational animals which are made to be taken and destroyed. The point of the comparison is, that they are like fierce and sava...
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 ...
But these, like brute beasts, knowing no law but their instincts, born only for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things about which they know nothing; they will be destroyed with their own co...
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...
NATURAL. Greek. _phusikos._ See Romans 1:26. BRUTE. Greek. _alogos._ See Acts 25:27. BEASTS. living creatures. Greek. _zoon._ Same as Hebrews 13:11. TO BE TAKEN, &C. = for (App-10
_But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed_ Literally, AS IRRATIONAL MERELY NATURAL ANIMALS BORN FOR CAPTURE AND DESTRUCTION. A different order of the words in some MSS. justi...
Contrast this with Jude 1:10. Jude says: These men speak evil of what they do not know: what they do know by natural instinct, like irrational beasts, they turn to a bad use....
ΆΛΟΓΟΣ (G249) без причины, неразумный. Они обладают физической, Но не интеллектуальной жизнью; они не лучше диких зверей, и погибнут (Bigg), ΖΏΑ _nom. pl._ от ΖΩΟΝ (G2226) живое существо, животное, з...
BUT THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS,— _But these, as animals, by nature void of reason, born for capture and destruction, railing against things in which they are ignorant, shall be utterly corrupted_...
2 PETER 2:12 BUT THESE, AS CREATURES WITHOUT REASON, BORN MERE ANIMALS TO BE TAKEN AND DESTROYED, RAILING IN MATTERS WHEREOF THEY ARE IGNORANT, SHALL IN THEIR DESTROYING SURELY BE DESTROYED, _Expande...
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; (Jude 1:10; Jude 1:19.) BUT -...
VERSE 12. BUT THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS. These wicked ones, here being described, act as if they were irrational like the beasts that are destined to be slaughtered as food for men. So great, in...
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...
2:12 destroyed, (k-13) Or 'to be captured and perish.'...
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...
NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS, MADE TO BE TAKEN] RV 'creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken.' SHALL UTTERLY PERISH IN THEIR OWN CORRUPTION, AND SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS] RV...
The false teachers pretended that they knew a lot about God. But really, they knew very little about him. They were not humble like the *angels. Instead, the false teachers were like animals. Animals...
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...
BUT THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS. — Omit “natural.” This verse appears to tell strongly in favour of the priority of our Epistle. The literary form of Jude 1:10, is so very superior; the antithesis...
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...
γεγεννημένα φυσικὰ “born creatures of instinct”. Instinct is here distinguished from the rational centres of thought and judgment. They are ἄλογα ζῷα. Their chief characteristic is that they are “aliv...
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...
(6) But these, as natural brute beasts, (l) made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their (m) own corruption; (6) An accurate des...
_But these men, &c. These infamous heretics of whom he speaks, like brutes, void of reason, naturally following the disorderly inclinations of their nature corrupted by sin, tend, or run headlong into...
"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...
12._But these. _He proceeds with what he had begun to say respecting impious and wicked corrupters. And, first, he condemns their loose manners and the obscene wickedness of their whole life; and then...
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 THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS,.... So far are these men from acting like the angels, that they are sunk below their own species, and are like beasts, and become brutish in their knowledge and beh...
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; Ver. 12. _As natural brute bea...
_But these_ False teachers; _as natural brute beasts_ As irrational animals, led merely by their brutish inclinations, several of which, in the present disordered state of the world, seem to be _made...
BUT THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS, MADE TO BE TAKEN AND DESTROYED, SPEAK EVIL OF THE THINGS THAT THEY UNDERSTAND NOT; AND SHALL UTTERLY PERISH IN THEIR OWN CORRUPTION,...
A further characterization of the false teachers:...
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 2:12 ‘But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be...
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 THESE; the false teachers before mentioned. AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS; beasts which are void of reason, and follow only their sensual inclination. MADE TO BE TAKEN AND DESTROYED; being made for men'...
2 Peter 2:12 But G1161 these G3778 like G5613 natural G5446 brute G249 beasts G2226 made G1080 (G5772) to...
‘But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken (captured) and destroyed, railing in matters of which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed.' In their...
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 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 2:12. BUT THESE, AS IRRATIONAL ANIMALS, BY NATURE BORN FOR CAPTURE AND DESTRUCTION. The string of epithets here is somewhat difficult to represent adequately. The latter phrase runs literally...
BUT THESE (ουτο δε). The false teachers of verse 2 Peter 2:1.AS CREATURES (ζωα). Living creatures, old word, from ζωος (alive), Judges 1:10; Revelation 4:6-9.WITHOUT REASON (αλογα). Old adjectiv...
NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS Natural animals without reason. (Jude 1:10)....
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...
BUT THESE MEN. "They are amoral like wild animals, fierce, greedy, destructive, rutting, etc." THEY INSULT. "They insult spiritual things that seem nonsense to them (1 Corinthians 2:14)_."_ THEY WILL...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:12 The false teachers behave in IRRATIONAL ways. They act LIKE... ANIMALS. They do not use reason or truth, only INSTINCT. Yet they behave like this while
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 1:4; 2 Peter 2:19; Ezekiel 21:31; Galatians 6:8; Jeremiah 10:2
As natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed. This massing of epithets is characteristic of Peter. Natural [φ υ σ ι κ α], Rev., mere animals, should be construed with made, or as Rev., born...
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...
Observe here, What our apostle compares these heretical seducers to, and sets them forth by, brute beasts. 1. Because their minds run after sensual objects violently and impetuously, and they know no...