Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Peter 2:2
The way of truth will be evil spoken of — By those who blend all false and true Christians together.
The way of truth will be evil spoken of — By those who blend all false and true Christians together.
Verse 2 Peter 2:2. _MANY SHALL FOLLOW_] WILL follow, because determined to gratify their sinful propensities. _PERNICIOUS WAYS_] ταις απωλειαις. _Their destructions_; i.e. the _heresies of destructi...
AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS - Margin: “lascivious.” A large number of manuscripts and versions read “lascivious” here - ἀσελγείαις aselgeiais - instead of “pernicious” - ἀπωλείαις...
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)...
As there were false prophets in Israel, so there will arise false teachers among the faithful. (Writing from the assumed standpoint of the apostolic age, he projects their coming into the future; in 2...
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...
And many will follow the way of their blatant immoralities and through them the true way will be brought into disrepute. In their evil ambition they will exploit you with cunningly forged arguments. T...
FOLLOW. See 2 Peter 1:16. PERNICIOUS WAYS. Greek. _apoleia,_ as 2 Peter 2:1, but the texts read "lasciviousnesses". Greek. _aselgeia._ See Romans 13:13. BY REASON OF. App-104....
_And many shall follow their pernicious ways_ Better, THEIR LASCIVIOUSNESSES. The word is the same as in Mark 7:22, Rom 13:13, 1 Peter 4:3, and elsewhere; and the English version loses the distinctive...
ἈΡΝΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ. They deny by their lives that Christ is their Master, and also in some cases by their teaching: for many who had grown up in the strong Monotheism of the Jews and had accepted Christianity...
ΈΞΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ (G1811) следовать, следовать за кем-л. ΑΎΤΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΑΎΤΌΣ (G846) сам; "их". Pron. относится к лжеучителям, дурному примеру которых широко подра...
AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS, &C.— The absurd doctrines and wicked practices of professed Christians have done infinite harm, and often caused the enemies of religion to _blaspheme._ Th...
2 PETER 2:2 AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR LASCIVIOUS DOINGS; BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. _Expanded Translation_ And many shall follow (imitate, observe and use as a gui...
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. FOLLOW [ exakoloutheesousin (G1811)] out FOLLOW, [ exakoloutheesousin (G1811)] - out. PERNICIO...
VERSE 2. AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS. As a result of the teaching of the false teachers, however much to be regretted it may be, many will follow them. They will make converts to thei...
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...
PERNICIOUS WAYS] RV 'lascivious doings.'...
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...
Some *prophets in the *Old Testament were false. They told people what the people wanted to hear. The false *prophets did not tell people the truth. They told people to enjoy themselves in wicked ways...
MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS. — “Pernicious ways” is a translation of the plural of the word just rendered “destruction.” (See fourth Note on 2 Peter 2:1.) But here the reading is undoubted...
CHAPTER 23 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER 2 Peter 2:1 THIS second chapter contains much more of a direct description of the heretical teaching and practices from which the converts were in danger,...
_The False Teachers and their Judgment_. “Yet there were also false prophets in the ancient community, just as among you there will be false teachers. They will not hesitate to introduce alongside the...
ἀσελγείαις. are “acts of lasciviousness”. ὁδὸς τῆς ἀληθείας. ἀληθεία contains the root-idea of “genuineness”. It combines the ideas of the knowledge of God and His purposes in Christ; and of the human...
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...
DESTRUCTIVE DOCTRINES In stark contrast to Holy Spirit inspired prophets who spoke true words that gave light, there were false prophets who led the people astray (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Isaiah 28:16-17;...
(2) And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. (2) There shall not only be heresies, but also many followers of them....
_Many shall follow their luxuries, or lasciviousness, such as are related of the Nicolaites and Gnostics, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed, or ill spoken of, by those who made no...
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring u...
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...
2._And many shall follow_. It is, indeed, no slight offense to the weak, when they see that false doctrines are received by the common consent of the world, that a large number of men are led astray,...
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...
AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS,.... Their principles and their practices, which lead to destruction, The Complutensian edition, the Alexandrian copy, and six copies of Beza's, and others,...
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. Ver. 2. _The way of truth shall be, &c._] The ancient Christians were generally hated and hoot...
_And many shall follow their pernicious ways_ Their destructive doctrines, and sinful practices. _By reason of whom the way of truth_ The doctrine of the gospel, and the genuine religion of Christ; _s...
THE WAY OF TRUTH; which the gospel reveals. SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF; shall be brought into reproach and discredit by the ungodly lives of these false teachers and those who follow them....
A WARNING AGAINST THE FALSE TEACHERS OF ALL TIMES. The false teachers and their judgment:...
AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS, BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF....
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...
PERNICIOUS WAYS: Or, lascivious ways, as some copies read...
_ 2 Peter 2:2 ‘And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be maligned;'_ ‘AND MANY WILL FOLLOW' -(Matthew 7:13). _ Points to Note:_ False doctrine spreads! Not...
1-9 Though the way of error is a hurtful way, many are always ready to walk therein. Let us take care we give no occasion to the enemy to blaspheme the holy name whereby we are called, or to speak ev...
AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS; Greek, their destructions, i.e. those ways of error which are attended with destruction (the effect being put for the cause by a metonymy); and the sense i...
2 Peter 2:2 And G2532 many G4183 follow G1811 (G5692) their G846 ways G684 because G1223 whom G3739 way...
THE FALSE TEACHERS, THEIR MESSAGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (2 PETER 2:1). The future tense here is probably intended simply to be a general future. The point is that the false teachers are at present amo...
‘And many will follow their lascivious doings, by reason of whom the way of the truth will be evil spoken of.' A prominent aspect of their teaching would seem to have been a claim that the way to acce...
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 2:2. AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR WANTONNESSES. The A. V. gives ‘pernicious ways,' following a reading which is now given up. On the noun see on 1 Peter 4:3. The same strong term is used for _f...
LASCIVIOUS DOINGS (ασελγειαις). Associative instrumental ease after εξακολουθησουσιν (future active, for which verb see 2 Peter 1:16). See 1 Peter 4:3 for this word.BY REASON OF WHOM (δι' ους). "B...
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...
MANY WILL FOLLOW. _MacKnight_ says: "And many nominal Christians will embrace their destructive heresies, because they encourage them in their sins." SPEAK EVIL OF THE WAY OF TRUTH. "Those who claim t...
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 2:2 Their false teaching results in SENSUALITY, which means a lack of self-constraint or an abandonment to immoral behavior. Most often the word refers to sexual sin....
MISCHIEF-MAKERS AND MISCHIEF-MAKING _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE subject treated in this chapter is the mischievous influence of corrupting doctrine. And false doctrine is constantly treated i...
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 John 2:18; 1 John 2:19; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Timothy 5:14; 2 Peter 2:12;...
Shall follow. See on ch. 2 Peter 1:16. Pernicious ways [α π ω λ ε ι α ι ς]. The true reading is ajselgeiaiv, lascivious doings. So Rev. See on 1 Peter 4:3. The use of the plural is rare. Compare Jude...
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, "Notwithstanding heretics bring such fatal destruction upon themselves, yet many that profess Christianity shall be seduced by them, and follow their pernicious ways, by re...