2 Peter 2:22

2 Peter 2:22 ‘It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

‘It has happened to them according to the true proverb' -‘the content of the true proverb has been “verified or realized” in their case' (Gr. Ex. N.T. p. 141). (Proverbs 26:11).

‘dog returns to its own vomit' -‘Advocates of the doctrine of the impossibility of apostasy, in an effort to avoid the obvious force of this passage, insist that the dog remained. dog, the sow. sow. Such is not the point of the proverb.. dog ejected that which was foul, the sow had been washed. That each returned to its former manner of life reveals that the old nature “returned” in each case that animal returned to its “former offensive habits”, just like these false teachers did.' (Woods p. 178)

Points to Note:

1. Well, it looks like God isn't much of. believer in the idea that we must tip-toe around the apostate. 2. ‘The dog which has got rid of the corruption inside through vomiting it up cannot leave well alone; it goes sniffing around the vomit again. The pig that has got rid of the corruption outside it by means of. scrubbing cannot resist rolling in the manure heap…….Covetousness, sophistical arguments, pride in knowledge, gluttony, drunkenness, lust, arrogance against authority of all kinds, and, most of all, the danger of denying the lordship of the Redeemer----are these not all the paramount temptations of money-mad, sex-mad, materialistic, anti-authoritarian, twentieth-century man?' (Green p. 121)