Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Peter 2:19
While they promise them liberty — From needless restraints and scruples; from the bondage of the law. Themselves are slaves of corruption — Even sin, the vilest of all bondage.
While they promise them liberty — From needless restraints and scruples; from the bondage of the law. Themselves are slaves of corruption — Even sin, the vilest of all bondage.
Verse 19. _WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY_] Either to live in the highest degrees of spiritual good, or a freedom from the Roman yoke; or from the yoke of the law, or what they might term needless re...
WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY - True religion always promises and produces liberty (see the notes at John 8:36), but the particular liberty which these persons seem to have promised, was freedom fro...
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...
ARE. being. Greek. _huparcho._ See Luke 9:48. SERVANTS. App-190. A MAN. App-123. OVERCOME. Greek. _hettaomai._ See 2 Corinthians 12:13. BROUGHT IN BONDAGE. enslaved. App-190. Add "also"....
_While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption_ We have here the characteristic feature of the teaching which St Peter condemns. It offered its followers freedom from...
ἘΛΕΥΘΕΡΊΑΝ κ.τ.λ. This degeneracy of liberty into licence was a constant danger. πάντα ἔξεστιν· ἀλλʼ οὐ πάντα συμφέρει (1 Corinthians 10:23). Galatians 5:13 μόνον μὴ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν εἱς�. 1 Peter 2:16...
ΈΛΕΥΘΕΡΊΑ (G1657) вольность, свобода. ΈΠΑΓΓΕΛΛΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΕΠΑΓΓΈΛΛΟΜΑΙ((G1861) обещать, ΎΠΆΡΧΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΎΠΆΡΧΩ (G5225) быть, существовать. Обозначает длител...
WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY,— Nothing is more sweet or desirable than _liberty;_ and therefore in order to allure men to become their disciples, they _promised them liberty:_ by which they meant l...
2 PETER 2:19 PROMISING THEM LIBERTY, WHILE THEY THEMSELVES ARE BONDSERVANTS OF CORRUPTION; FOR OF WHOM A MAN IS OVERCOME, OF THE SAME IS HE ALSO BROUGHT INTO BONDAGE. _Expanded Translation_ promising...
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. PROMISE THEM LIBERTY - instances of their "great...
VERSE 19. WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY. The promise held out to those sought to be apostatized and drawn from the faith was liberty. This was the promise. Liberty in this, that men possessing appet...
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...
2:19 by (a-18) Or 'to him.'...
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...
Cp. John 8:34; Romans 6:16....
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...
Jesus promised to make people free (John 8:32). But the false teachers were teaching this in a wrong way. They said that people could live just as they wanted to. They were free from the fear of judge...
PROMISE THEM LIBERTY. — A specimen of the “great swelling words” — loud, high-sounding talk about liberty. The doctrines of Simon Magus, as reported by Irenæus (I., chap. xxiii. 3) and by Hippolytus ...
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...
ἐλευθερίαν. Doubtless that Antinomianism is indicated to which the doctrine of Grace has ever been open. _Cf._ Galatians 5:13. It arises from the ever-recurring confusion of liberty and license. The t...
_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...
"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...
19._While they promise them liberty. _He shews their inconsistency, that they falsely promised liberty, while they themselves served sin, and were in the worst bondage; for no one can give what he has...
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...
WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY,.... Not Christian liberty, which lies in a freedom from sin, its dominion, guilt, and condemnation, and in serving God with liberty, cheerfulness, and without fear; bu...
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. Ver. 19. _Promise them liberty_] As Mahometism, a...
_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...
LIBERTY; false liberty, which gave license to fleshly lusts. See note to the preceding verse....
The spiritual slavery of the false teachers and its consequences:...
WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY, THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE SERVANTS OF CORRUPTION; FOR OF WHOM A MAN IS OVERCOME, OF THE SAME IS HE BROUGHT IN BONDAGE....
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 2:19 ‘promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what. man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.'_ ‘PROMISING THEM FREEDOM' -‘fancied liberty, i.e. license,...
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...
WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY; liberty for their lusts, and so from the yoke of the Divine law. They abused the name of Christian liberty, and extended it to licentiousness. THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV 4. For as the serpent beguiled Eve, by promising her what he had not himself,[5]...
2 Peter 2:19 promise G1861 (G5740) them G846 liberty G1657 themselves G846 are G5225 (G5723) slaves G1401 corruption...
‘For of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.' Even while they speak of freedom they are themselves bondslaves. For the truth is that whoever or whatever overcomes a man...
‘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 2:19. PROMISING THEM LIBERTY, THEY THEMSELVES BEING (all the while) BOND-SERVANTS OF CORRUPTION. The loud-sounding engagement to give ‘liberty,' a new liberty worthy of man, would be one of th...
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...
LIBERTY (ελευθεριαν). Promising "personal liberty," that is license, after the fashion of advocates of liquor today, not the freedom of truth in Christ (John 8:32; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 5:13).THE...
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...
THEY PROMISE THEM. See Paul's warning in Galatians 5:13 and note. The false teachers claimed that being free in Christ gave a person the right to do anything and everything they pleased!!! THEY THEMSE...
_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....
_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 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Timothy 2:26; Galatians 5:1; Galatian
Is overcome [η τ τ η τ α ι]. Lit., is worsted; from hsswn, inferior. Only here, ver. 20, and 2 Corinthians 12:13. Brought into bondage [δ ε δ ο υ λ ω τ α ι]. Enslaved. Compare Romans 6:16....
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, 1. How the old pretence for the most unbounded licentiousness has been LIBERTY; THEY PROMISE YOU LIBERTY;. liberty to do any thing without fear: But this is not liberty poperly, but lice...