Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Peter 2:18
They ensnare in the desires of the flesh — Allowing them to gratify some unholy desire. Those who were before entirely escaped from the spirit, custom, and company of them that live in error — In sin.
They ensnare in the desires of the flesh — Allowing them to gratify some unholy desire. Those who were before entirely escaped from the spirit, custom, and company of them that live in error — In sin.
2 PETER 2:18 ovli,gwj {A} Among the palaeographically similar readings (oligwc@ ontwc@ ontac), ovli,gwj, a rare word that occurs nowhere else in the New Testament or the Septuagint (although Aquila h...
Verse 18. _THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING_ WORDS _OF VANITY_] The word υπερογκα signifies things of great magnitude, grand, superb, sublime; it sometimes signifies _inflated, tumid, bombastic_. These fals...
FOR WHEN THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY - When they make pretensions to wisdom and learning, or seem to attach great importance to what they say, and urge it in a pompous and positive manne...
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)...
Uttering vain words they snare in the lusts of the flesh those who were just escaping (or, had actually escaped) from heathen vices, promising them liberty, while all the time they are themselves the...
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...
GREAT SWELLING. Greek. _huperonkos._ Only here and Jude 1:16. VANITY. Greek. _mataiotes._ See Romans 8:20. ALLURE. Same as "beguile", 2 Peter 2:14. _ THROUGH_, &C. Literally by (dative
_For when they speak great swelling words of vanity_ Literally, FOR SPEAKING.… The adjective is used by classical writers both literally and figuratively of excessive magnitude. It indicates what we s...
ὙΠΈΡΟΓΚΑ κ.τ.λ. ἘΝ ἘΠΙΘΥΜΊΑΙΣ ΣΑΡΚΌΣ. This is the last case of borrowing from Jude for some time. It answers to Jude 1:16 κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας αὐτῶν πορευόμενοι καὶ τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν λαλεῖ ὑπέρογκα. ἘΝ ἘΠΙ...
ΥΠΈΡΟΓΚΟΣ (G5246) опухший, набухший. Неестественно раздутый. Они говорили напыщенно. Чрезмерное красноречие было их оружием для уловления неосторожных, лесть была наживкой на их крючке (Green), ΜΑΤΑΝ...
FOR WHEN THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING WORDS— _For, while they utter high swelling words of vanity, they, by the lusts of the flesh, lay a bait for those who had really escaped from them that live in erro...
_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...
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. ALLURE, [ deleazou...
VERSE 18. FOR WHEN THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING WORDS. The sense is that these wicked ones used words utterly devoid of any knowledge of divine things. Their speech was in great flowing, high-sounding wo...
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...
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...
_Through much_ WANTONNESS] RV 'by lasciviousness.' The repetition of this word points to the character of the false teachers. Repetition of this kind is frequent in 1 Pet. THOSE THAT WERE CLEAN ESCAP...
The false teachers sounded very confident. They wanted to impress other people. They tried to attract the people who had just become Christians. These people had not learned very much about God. They...
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...
GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY. — Exaggeration, unreality, boastfulness, and emptiness are expressed by this phrase. It carries on the same idea as the waterless wells and the driven mists — great pre...
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...
ὑπέρογκα. _Cf._ Jude 1:16. No doubt the reference is to the use of Gnostic terms. ματαιότης, used specially of moral insincerity. _Cf._ ματαίας ἀναστροφῆς, “heartless conduct,” 1 Peter 1:18. There is...
_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...
BEWARE OF EMPTY PROMISES The false teachers, about whom Peter warned, used big words that sounded good but were empty. They lured those who had just escaped back into the ways of sin. Christians certa...
For when they speak great (q) swelling [words] of vanity, they (r) allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were (s) clean escaped from them who live in error. (q)...
"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...
18._For when they speak great swelling words of vanity. _(172) He means that they dazzled the eyes of the simple by high-flown stuff of words, that they might not perceive their deceit, for it was not...
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...
FOR WHEN THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING [WORDS] OF VANITY,.... Marvellous things against the God of gods, great things and blasphemies against God, his name, his tabernacle, and his saints; see Daniel 11:3...
For when they speak great swelling _words_ of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, _through much_ wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. Ver. 18. _Great...
_When they speak great swelling words of vanity_ Propose their vain and false doctrine in a lofty style, or affect sublime strains of language, which are often void of any real meaning; _they allure t...
GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY; making, after the fashion of such men, large professions of their own light and knowledge, and large promises of good to others. THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH-WANTONNE...
The spiritual slavery of the false teachers and its consequences:...
FOR WHEN THEY SPEAK GREAT, SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY, THEY ALLURE THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH, THROUGH MUCH WANTONNESS, THOSE THAT WERE CLEAN ESCAPED FROM THEM WHO LIVE IN ERROR....
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...
CLEAN: Or, for a little, or a while as some read...
_ 2 Peter 2:18 ‘For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,'_ ‘FOR' -The reason why they are call...
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...
GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY; i.e. big words, full of sound, and void of sense, at least of truth. He seems to tax the affected, vain speech of seducers, who were wont to clothe their erroneous doct...
2 Peter 2:18 For G1063 speak G5350 (G5726) swelling G5246 emptiness G3153 allure G1185 (G5719) through G1722 lusts...
‘For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from those who live in error, promising them liberty, while they th...
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 2:18. FOR SPEAKING GREAT SWELLING THINGS OF VANITY. The writer proceeds now to justify what he has just said, either as to the doom of the false teachers, or as to their character as pretender...
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...
GREAT SWELLING WORDS (υπερογκα). Old compound adjective (υπερ and ογκος, a swelling, swelling above and beyond), in N.T. only here and Judges 1:16.OF VANITY (ματαιοτητος). Late and rare word (from...
2 Peter 2:18 False Theories of our Life. I. There is the epicurean or pleasure theory: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." Let us see how this creed narrows down our life to a very point, st...
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...
PROUD AND STUPID. "They claim to be more important than us apostles and so they make proud and stupid statements to impress people." USE IMMORAL BODILY LUSTS. "They seduce people to join with them in...
_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 2:18 ENTICE BY SENSUAL PASSIONS... THOSE WHO ARE BARELY ESCAPING. The false teachers tell new Christians they can do whatever they wish sexually without harm....
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 2:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Acts 2:40; Acts 8:9;...
When they speak [φ θ ε γ γ ο μ ε ν ο ι]. Rev., better, uttering. See on ver. 16. Great swelling [υ π ε ρ ο γ κ α]. Only here and Jude 1:16. The word means of excessive bulk. It accords well with the p...
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 next sin charged upon these seducers is pride and ostentation, they speak big, GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY; with. lofty and affected style they propound their false doctrines to amuse the simpl...