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Verse 21. _FOR IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN_] For the
reasons assigned above; because they have sinned against more mercy,
are capable of more sin, and are liable to greater punishmen...
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FOR IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM ... - Compare the notes at Matthew
26:24. It would have been better for them, for:
(1)Then they would not have dishonored the cause of religion as they
have now done;...
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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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Uttering vain words they snare in the lusts of the flesh those who
were just escaping (or, had actually escaped) from heathen vices,
promising them liberty, while all the time they are themselves the...
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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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These people are waterless springs, mists driven by a squall of wind;
and the gloom of darkness is reserved for them. With talk at once
arrogant and futile, they ensnare by appeals to shameless, sensu...
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NOT. App-105.
KNOWN. App-132.
TURN. turn back.
FROM. App-104.
UNTO. to....
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_For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness_ The verb for "known" is, like the noun in the preceding
verse, that which implies the fullest form of knowledge, as in 1
Co...
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ΤῊΝ ὉΔῸΝ ΤΗ͂Σ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΎΝΗΣ occurs in the
_Apocalypse of Peter_, §§ 7, 13. It is not a common phrase....
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ΚΡΕΪ́ΤΤΟΝ (G2909) _сотр. от_ ΆΓΑΘΌΣ
хороший; _сотр._ лучше,
ΈΠΕΓΝΩΚΈΝΑΙ _perf. act. inf. от_ ΈΠΙΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ
(G1921) знать. _Inf._ поясняет, что лучше,
ΈΠΙΓΝΟΎΣΙΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΠΙΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ
(G1921)...
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DISCOURSE: 2425
APOSTATES IN A WORSE STATE THAN EVER
2 Peter 2:20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are
again ent...
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IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN, &C.— By the word
_better,_ is meant the lesser evil: which, when two evils are compared
together, is accounted the greatest good. _Righteousness_ in this...
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2 PETER 2:21-22 FOR IT WERE BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAN, AFTER KNOWING IT, TO TURN BACK FROM THE HOLY
COMMANDMENT DELIVERED UNTO THEM. IT HAS HAPPENED UNTO THEM AC...
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For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them. THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - "the way...
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VERSE 21. FOR IT HAD BEEN BETTER.
Such as apostatize would have been better off had they never heard the
gospel of Christ, for by their apostasy their sin is made the greater
and the chains with which...
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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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2:21 known (b-10) known (b-17) _ Epignosis_ , see Note i, ch. 1.3....
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TURN] RV 'turn back.'...
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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 wicked ways of the world’ refers to all the people, societies
and governments in the world who oppose God. The false teachers had
once escaped from these wicked ways. They had learned about the *...
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CHAPTER 25
ALTOGETHER BECOME ABOMINABLE
2 Peter 2:17
THE Apostle now describes these traitors to the cause of Christ under
another aspect. They proffer themselves as guides and teachers. As
such the...
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_The consequences of falling away_. “The case of their victims is a
serious one. They have escaped from the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and are once more entangled a...
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ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης. Also called “the way of
truth,” 2 Peter 2:2, “the straight way,” 2 Peter 2:15.
ἐντολῆς. Elsewhere in N.T. the singular is used to mean a
particular precept. _Cf._ Romans 7:12;...
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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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BEWARE OF EMPTY PROMISES
The false teachers, about whom Peter warned, used big words that
sounded good but were empty. They lured those who had just escaped
back into the ways of sin. Christians certa...
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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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21.By saying that having forsaken _the commandment delivered unto
them, _they returned to their own pollutions, he intimates first, how
inexcusable they were; and secondly, he reminds us that the doct...
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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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FOR IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM,.... Not that ignorance is good, or to
be excused; but it would have been a lesser evil, and not so much
aggravated:
NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; the sa...
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For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after they have known _it_, to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.
Ver. 21. _It had been better_] _No...
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_For if after they_ The persons here spoken of as deluded; _have
escaped the pollutions of the world_ The sins which pollute those who
know not God; _through the knowledge of Christ_ That is, through...
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FOR IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN, AFTER THEY HAVE KNOWN IT, TO TURN FROM THE HOLY
COMMANDMENT DELIVERED UNTO THEM....
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The spiritual slavery of the false teachers and its consequences:...
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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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_ 2 Peter 2:21 ‘For it would be better for them not to have known
the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the
holy commandment delivered to them.'_
‘FOR IT WOULD BE BETTER….N...
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17-22 The word of truth is the water of life, which refreshes the
souls that receive it; but deceivers spread and promote error, and are
set forth as empty, because there is no truth in them. As clou...
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IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN; their sin had been less
if they had not known the truth, but now they sin against knowledge,
and therein their apostacy is much worse than their ignoranc...
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2 Peter 2:21 For G1063 been G2258 (G5713) better G2909 them G846 not
G3361 known G1921 (G5760) way...
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‘For it were better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy
commandment delivered to them.'
And the sad thing for many of these people...
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ALL NEED TO CONSIDER WHAT FOLLOWING THIS TEACHING INVOLVES (2 PETER
2:20).
It is often debated as to whether these following verses are spoken
about the false teachers, or about both them and their fo...
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2 Peter 2:21. FOR IT WERE BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAN, HAVING KNOWN IT, TO TURN BACK FROM THE HOLY
COMMANDMENT DELIVERED TO THEM. The ‘better' here, as in 1 Peter...
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The description of the parties destined to spring up within the
Church, which has been partially interrupted by the summary of
Balaam's case, is resumed in direct terms. New points are pressed with
th...
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IT WERE BETTER
(κρειττον ην). Apodosis of a condition of second class
without αν, as is usual with clauses of possibility, propriety,
obligation (Matthew 26:24; 1 Corinthians 5:10; Romans 7:7;...
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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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IT WOULD HAVE BEEN. Compare 1 Timothy 4:2. If a man is ignorant of
truth, you can give him truth more easily, than if he already knows it
and has renounced it! If a man gives up the Christian life-sty...
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_These are wells without water._
FALSE TEACHERS
I. Their un-profitableness. “Wells without water.”
1. Pastors are like wells--
(1) For constancy. They keep their residence; men know where to find...
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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 2:20 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER for these
false teachers never to have ESCAPED the world in the first place.
They had the KNOWLEDGE OF... CHRIST. They then r
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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 Thessalonians 4:2; Ezekiel 18:24; Ezekiel 23:13; Ezekiel 3:20;...
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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...
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The commandment — The whole law of God, once not only delivered to
their ears, but written in their hearts....
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As if the apostle had said, The sin and misery of these men had been
far less, if they had never known the way of righteousness revealed by
the gospel of Christ, than after they have known it, to fors...