Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
2 Peter 2:4-8
(4-8) Three instances of divine vengeance, proving that great wickedness never goes unpunished.
(4-8) Three instances of divine vengeance, proving that great wickedness never goes unpunished.
2 PETER 2:4 seirai/j {C} The textual evidence is singularly evenly balanced between seirai/j and siroi/j. The latter reading, despite its being supported by a A B C 81vid copsa _al,_ was regarded by...
Verse 4. _FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS_] The angels were originally placed in a state of probation; some having fallen and some having stood proves this. How long that probation was to last to th...
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED - The apostle now proceeds to the proof of the proposition that these persons would be punished. It is to be remembered that they had been, or were even th...
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...
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...
_For if God spared not the angels that sinned_ Better, SPARED NOT ANGELS, there being no article in the Greek. Here the nature of the sin is not specified. We may think either of a rebellion of angels...
4 sqq. ΕἸ ΓᾺΡ Ὁ ΘΕΌΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. to the end of 2 Peter 2:10. The sentence has a different climax to that which we expect. The _protasis_ is, roughly, this: “Speedy punishment awaits these men. For if God d...
ΆΜΑΡΤΗΣΆΝΤΩΝ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΩ (G264) грешить, ΈΦΕΊΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΦΕΊΔΟΜΑΙ (G5339) с _gen._ щадить. Ind. используется в _conj._ 1 типа, предполагающем реальность у...
DISCOURSE: 2424 GOD THE PUNISHER OF SIN 2 Peter 2:4. If God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and...
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS— Some think the sense is suspended till we come to 2 Peter 2:9 and the reddition to be looked for there; that is, _If God spared not the angels who sinned,_ &c. _the L...
2 PETER 2:4 FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT ANGELS WHEN THEY SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL, AND COMMITTED THEM TO PITS[61] OF DARKNESS, TO BE RESERVED UNTO JUDGMENT; [61] Some manuscripts have chains. _E...
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; IF. The consequent member of the sentence is virtu...
VERSE 4. FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED. You know that God spared not the angels who rebelled. He subjected them to punishment. They were cast out of heaven and into darkness. They are...
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...
The Apostle here follows Jewish tradition (cp. Revelation 20:1), as it is given in the book of Enoch, from which St. Jude expressly quotes....
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...
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,...
εἰ γὰρ ὁ θεός … introducing a series of conditional sentences. The apodosis is found in οἶδεν κύριος … of 2 Peter 2:9. σειραῖς. No doubt a rendering of δεσμοῖς in Jude 1:6, agreeably to the practice o...
2 Peter 2:4-10 _a_. _A historical illustration of the Divine judgment on the wicked, and care of the righteous_. “God spared not angels who sinned, but having cast them into Tartarus, gave them over t...
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...
THE DOOM AWAITING FALSE TEACHERS Angels were created by God to serve him and do his bidding (Hebrews 1:7; Hebrews 1:14). To prove punishment surely waited for the false teachers mentioned in verse 3,...
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to (c) hell, and delivered [them] into (d) chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (c) So the Greeks called the deep dunge...
If God spared not the Angels, &c. St. Peter here brings these examples of God's justice. 1. Towards the rebellious angels that fell from heaven; 2. that of the general flood, or deluge; 3. when he des...
"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...
4._For if. _We have stated how much it behoves us to know that the ungodly, who by their mischievous opinions corrupt the Church, cannot escape God’s vengeance; and this he proves especially by three...
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...
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED..... By whom are meant the devil and his angels; who are spirits created by God and as such were good; their first estate which they left was pure and holy...
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast _them_ down to hell, and delivered _them_ into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; Ver. 4. _If God spared not the angels_] Though...
_For if_ Or _since_, as ει γαρ may be here rendered; _God spared not the angels that sinned_ “The angels seem to have been placed originally in a state of trial. Those who stood are called in Scriptur...
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS; verses 2Pe 2:4-8 are all connected with verse 2 Peter 2:9, thus: "For if God spared not the angels-and spared not the old world-and turning the cities of Sodom and Go...
Examples from History:...
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL, AND DELIVERED THEM INTO CHAINS OF DARKNESS, TO BE RESERVED UNTO JUDGMENT;...
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 2:4 ‘For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;'_ ‘FOR' -Peter argues from Old Testament precede...
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...
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL: elsewhere called _the deep,_ LUKE 8:31, and _the bottomless pit,_ REVELATION 9:1, REVELATION 11:7 17:8 20:1,3. This implies a...
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book X fire of judgment, and the rayless scenery of gloomy Tartarus,[67] Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments Wherefore, in order to teach us this, he uses the exam...
2 Peter 2:4 For G1063 if G1487 God G2316 not G3756 spare G5339 (G5662) angels G32 sinned G264 ...
‘For if God did not spare not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; The first example is the angels who sinned b...
EXAMPLES OF GOD'S JUDGMENT ON LICENTIOUS BEHAVIOUR AND HIS DELIVERY OF THE RIGHTEOUS (2 PETER 2:4). Peter now calls on a number of examples from the Old Testament which demonstrate the truth of what...
2 Peter 2:4. FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT ANGELS WHEN THEY SINNED. This rendering (which is adopted by the R. V.) comes nearer the original than that of the A. V. It is not merely that _those_ of the angels...
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...
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT (ε γαρ ο θεος ουκ εφεισατο). First instance (γαρ) of certain doom, that of the fallen angels. Condition of the first class precisely like that in Romans 11:21 save that here th...
2 Peter 2:4 We get but few glimpses into other worlds. What we have seen of them suggests that their moral history strongly resembles our own. Sin and suffering, holiness and joy these seem to be the...
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...
GOD DID NOT SPARE. "The punishment of these false teachers and those who follow them is both certain and sure! Even the angels, of such high rank, were punished by God when they sinned!" See Jude 1:6...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:4 Peter turns to a detailed argument proving God’s certain judgment on the false teachers. Four times he uses a lesser-to-greater method of argument (if A is true, how much m...
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....
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 3:8; 2 Peter 2:11; 2 Peter 2:5; 2 Peter 2:9; Deuteronomy 29:20;...
The angels. No article. Angels. So Rev. Compare Jude 1:6. Cast them down to hell [τ α ρ τ α ρ ω σ α ς]. Only here in New Testament. From Tartarov, Tartarus. It is strange to find Peter using this Paga...
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...
Cast them down to hell — The bottomless pit, a place of unknown misery. Delivered them — Like condemned criminals to safe custody, as if bound with the strongest chains in a dungeon of darkness, to be...
Are fallen angels bound or are they free to tempt human beings? PROBLEM: Peter affirms in this passage that God cast the fallen angels “down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be r...
Our apostle having asserted in the foregoing verse, that the judgment of the wicked in general lingereth not, and that the damnation of seducers in particular slumbereth not; he comes here in these ve...