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2 PETER 2:14 moicali,doj {A}
Instead of moicali,doj (“an adulteress”), which is strongly
supported by î72 B C 81 and most minuscules, Y _al_ read moicei,aj
(“adultery”), while a...
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Verse 14. _HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY_] μοιχαλιδος. _Of
an_ _adulteress_; being ever bent on the gratification of their
sensual desires, so that they are represented as having _an
adulteress_ _cons...
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HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY - Margin, as in the Greek, “an
adulteress;” that is, gazing with desire after such persons. The
word “full” is designed to denote that the corrupt passion
referred to had...
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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)...
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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 ...
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But these, like brute beasts, knowing no law but their instincts, born
only for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things about which
they know nothing; they will be destroyed with their own co...
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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...
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ADULTERY. an adulteress.
THAT CANNOT CEASE. Greek. _akatapaustos._ Only here.
SIN. App-128.
BEGUILING. See James 1:14.
UNSTABLE. Greek. _asteriktos._ Only here and 2 Peter 3:16.
SOULS. App-110....
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_having eyes full of adultery_ The Greek gives literally the somewhat
strange figure, HAVING EYES FULL OF AN ADULTERESS. The phrase is
probably connected with a recollection of our Lord's words as to...
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ὈΦΘΑΛΜΟῪΣ ἜΧΟΝΤΕΣ ΜΕΣΤΟῪΣ
ΜΟΙΧΑΛΊΔΟΣ. Dr Bigg unhesitatingly rejects
μοιχαλίδος as a blunder for μοιχείας: the only
various reading in the MSS. is μοιχαλίας (אA and three
cursives) which is not a poss...
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HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY,— There is a prodigious strength in the
original; it properly signifies their having an adulteress continually
before their eyes;—_having eyes full of an adulteress._ Inst...
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_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...
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Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
FULL OF ADULTERY. B C [ moichalidos (G...
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VERSE 14. HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY.
Their vision is lascivious to such an extreme that it is unceasing,
and every effort is made by them to lead astray, by temptations to the
sensual appetite, th...
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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...
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2:14 covetousness, (m-20) Or 'carnal desire and seeking to seduce,'
'practised in seduction' is the sense....
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CURSED CHILDREN] RV 'children of cursing,' a Hebrew mode of
expression: cp. 1 Peter 1:14 it means that their whole character is
worthy of execration....
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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...
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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...
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The false teachers looked at every woman. They wanted to have wrong
sex with the women. These men could never stop doing wrong things. The
more that they *sinned, the more they wanted to *sin. Some Ch...
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OF ADULTERY. — Literally, _of an adulteress._ This verse has no
counterpart in Jude.
THAT CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN. — Literally, _that cannot be made to
cease from sin._ (Comp. attentively 1 Peter 4:1.)...
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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...
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ἀκαταπαύστους ἀμαρτίας. For use of genitive
with this verb, _cf._ 1 Peter 4:1. See Grammatical Note.
δελεάζοντες. _Cf._ 2 Peter 2:18 and Mayor's note on James
1:14, “entice or catch by a bait”. κατάρα...
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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...
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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...
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A SAD PORTRAIT OF FALSE TEACHERS
The false teachers, of whom Peter spoke, were like animals with no
conscience going about taking whatever they could by force. Man
usually destroys such animals becaus...
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(7) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
(7) He condemns those men, showing ev...
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And what is still an aggravation to the weight of their sins, they
entice and allure others, _unstable souls, not sufficiently grounded
in faith and virtue, by promising them liberty and happiness, th...
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"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...
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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...
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14._Beguiling, _or _baiting_, _unstable souls. _By the metaphor of
_baiting _he reminds the faithful to beware of their hidden and
deceitful arts; for he compares their impostures to hooks which may
c...
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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...
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HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY,.... For the seventh command is not only
violated by unclean actions, and obscene words, but also by unchaste
looks: and so the Jews explain k that precept,
"thou shalt n...
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Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
Ver. 14. _Having eyes full of adultery_]...
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_But these_ False teachers; _as natural brute beasts_ As irrational
animals, led merely by their brutish inclinations, several of which,
in the present disordered state of the world, seem to be _made...
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CANNOT CEASE; not for want of natural power, but of disposition.
Licentiousness and the love of money in professors of religion are
decisive marks of hypocrisy, and show that those who live in these
s...
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A further characterization of the false teachers:...
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HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY, AND THAT CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN;
BEGUILING UNSTABLE SOULS; AN HEART THEY HAVE EXERCISED WITH COVETOUS
PRACTICES; CURSED CHILDREN.
This is a harsh, but true description of...
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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...
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ADULTERY:
_ Gr._ an adulteress...
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_ 2 Peter 2:14 ‘having eyes full of adultery and that never cease
from sin, enticing unstable souls, having. heart trained in greed,
accursed children;'_
‘HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY' -‘They lust aft...
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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...
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HAVING EYES; he mentions the eyes, both because they let in the
objects of lust into the heart, JOB 31:1 MATTHEW 5:28, and because the
signs of lust in the heart appear especially in the eyes, Genesis...
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2 Peter 2:14 having G2192 (G5723) eyes G3788 full G3324 adultery G3428
and G2532 from G180 sin G266 enticing...
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‘Themselves suffering wrong as the reward of wrongdoing, counting it
pleasure to indulge themselves in the daytime (literally ‘in a
day'), spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they...
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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...
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2 Peter 2:14. HAVING EYES FULL OF AN ADULTERESS. The noun rendered
‘adultery' both by the A. V. and by the R. V. means really an
_adulteress._ The phrase ‘full of' also means, at least occasionally
in...
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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...
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OF ADULTERY
(μοιχαλιδος). Rather, "of an adulteress," like James 4:4.
Vivid picture of a man who cannot see a woman without lascivious
thoughts toward her (Mayor). Cf. Matthew 5:28.THAT CANNOT CEAS...
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SIN
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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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...
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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...
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THEY WANT. See Matthew 5:28 and note. The Greek says literally:
"Having eyes full of an adulteress." This can mean: (1) they have an
obsession to look at immoral women; (2) in their mind, every woman...
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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....
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2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:14 Their EYES desire ADULTERY with nearly
every woman they meet. INSATIABLE FOR SIN. Their appetite for sin is
never satisfied. Even worse, they...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 John 2:16; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Pet
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Eyes. Another illustration of Peter's emphasis on sight. It is the
instrument of evil no less than of good. Compare Matthew 5:28.
Adultery [μ ο ι χ α λ ι δ ο ς]. Lit., an adulteress, but
used as an ad...
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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...