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2 Peter 2:11
Even the angels. "Even the holy angels do not insult these wicked false teachers who are doing so much damage among the churches!" See the example Jude gives in Jude 1:9.
Even the angels. "Even the holy angels do not insult these wicked false teachers who are doing so much damage among the churches!" See the example Jude gives in Jude 1:9.
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Verse 11. _WHEREAS ANGELS_, c.] This is a difficult verse, but the meaning seems to be this: The holy angels, who are represented as bringing an account of the actions of the fallen angels before the...
WHEREAS ANGELS - The object, by the reference to angels here, is to show that they, even when manifesting the greatest zeal in a righteous cause, and even when opposing others, did not make use of rep...
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...
WHICH ARE. though being. POWER. App-172. MIGHT. App-172. Compare Psalms 103:20; 2 Thessalonians 1:7. RAILING. Greek. _blasphemos,_ as 1 Timothy 1:13. accusation
_Whereas angels, which are greater in power_ Some of the MSS. omit the words "before the Lord." The words as they stand here leave it uncertain of what instance the Apostle speaks, but it is probable...
A veiled description of the incident of Michael and Satan which is openly told in Jude 1:9. See Introd. p. xiv....
ΌΠΟΥ (G3699) где, в случае чего, тогда как (Mayor), ΙΣΧΎΣ (G2479) сила, неотъемлемая сила (RWP; _см._ Ephesians 1:19). ΜΕΊΖΟΝΕΣ (G3187) _сотр. от_ ΜΈΓΑΣ великий; _сотр._ более великий, превосходный,...
WHEREAS ANGELS— It is a rule of interpretation, that the plainer and larger account of any thing should be taken, to explain that which is more brief and obscure. Accordingly, Jude, 2 Peter 2:9 ought...
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...
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. WHICH ARE - though they are. GREATER - than these blasphemers. Jude cites Michael as...
VERSE 11. WHEREAS ANGELS, WHICH ARE GREATER IN POWER. While the wicked here being described do all the things named without any hesitancy, heavenly messengers, superior in power and might, do not exh...
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...
Comparison with Judges 1:9 would suggest that the Apostle is here too referring to an apocryphal book, but if we did not know that Epistle we should more naturally think of Job 1 or Zechariah 3....
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...
*Angels are greater than people are (Psalms 8:5). *Angels have more power and they are stronger than the false teachers. But the *angels would not *judge the false teachers. Also, the *angels would no...
WHEREAS ANGELS. — Literally, _Where angels — i.e.,_ in circumstances in which angels. This verse, if it refers to the same incident as Jude 1:9, seems at first sight to tell somewhat in favour of the...
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...
ὅπου = “whereas”. The interpretation of this verse turns on the meaning of κατʼ αὐτῶν. Does it refer to the false teachers, or to a distinction between two sets of angels, which finds an illustration...
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...
Whereas angels, &c. By comparing this place with what we read in St. Jude, (ver. 9) he speaks of the good angels whom God employed to banish the rebellious angels out of heaven, and on other occasions...
"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...
11._Whereas angels. _He hence shews their rash arrogance, because they dared to assume more liberty than even angels. But it seems strange that he says that angels do not bring a railing accusation ag...
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...
WHEREAS ANGELS, WHICH ARE GREATER IN POWER AND MIGHT,.... Which is not to be understood of evil angels, or devils; for, besides that they are greatly weakened and impaired by their fall, they are the...
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. Ver. 11. _Which are greater in power_] viz. Than the mightiest monarch, Daniel 10:20,...
_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...
AGAINST THEM; against the dignities that oppose them in the execution of God's commands. See Judges 1:9. Angels, and those who are in temper like them, will not rail even against the wicked; and those...
WHEREAS ANGELS, WHICH ARE GREATER IN POWER AND MIGHT, BRING NOT RAILING ACCUSATION AGAINST THEM BEFORE THE LORD....
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...
AGAINST THEM: some read against themselves...
_ 2 Peter 2:11 ‘whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring. reviling judgment against them before the Lord.'_ Points to Note: By slandering such angelic authorities, the false te...
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...
ANGELS; good angels, JUDGES 1:9. GREATER; either greater than these audacious false teachers, or else greater than the forementioned dignities. IN POWER AND MIGHT; i.e. greater in their natural streng...
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Of this same thing in the Epistle of Peter: "As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; but ha...
2 Peter 2:11 whereas G3699 angels G32 are G5607 (G5752) in G3187 power G2479 and G2532 might G1411 not...
‘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...
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 2:11. WHERE ANGELS, GREATER AS THEY ARE IN STRENGTH AND POWER, BRING NOT AGAINST THEM BEFORE THE LORD A RAILING JUDGMENT. The phrase ‘before the Lord' is omitted by some good authorities, and...
WHEREAS (οπου). Loose use of οπου (in Xenophon) = "wherein."THOUGH GREATER (μειζονες οντες). Than the evil δοξα. Concessive participle and comparative adjective.IN MIGHT AND STRENGTH (ισχυ κα δυ...
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...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:10 The false teachers BLASPHEME THE GLORIOUS ONES, probably evil angels (v. 2 Peter 2:11; compare...
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 Thessalonians 1:7; Daniel 6:22; Jude 1:9; Psalms 103:20; Psalms 104
Power and might [ι σ χ υ ι κ α ι δ υ ν α μ ε ι]. Rev., might and power. The radical idea of ijscuv, might, is that of indwelling strength, especially as embodied : might which inheres in physical powe...
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...
Whereas angels — When they appear before the Lord, Job 1:6, Job 2:1, to give an account of what they have seen and done on the earth....
That is, "Whereas the blessed angels, who have more power than men, when they plead against devils themselves, do it not by railing accusation." Note here, That angels are far superior to men in dign...