2 peter 2:20 commentary

embracing and professing the truth of the Christian religion, ‘and are overcome’-These false teachers, like some Christians think that they now ‘know better’ and ‘know enough’ to go back into the world and yet not get into trouble, like they did before they became a Christian. There was besides ingratitude, because they wilfully extinguished the light of God, rejected the favor conferred on them, and having shaken off the yoke, became perversely wanton against God; yea, as far as they could, they profaned and abrogated the inviolable covenant of God, which had been ratified by the blood of Christ. Greater privilege results in greater responsibility, and greater punishment if one rejects the privilege. It is their condition in this mortal life and at the judgment seat of Christ that is in view, not their eternal damnation. Verse 1. 1. For if, having escaped (it might seem at first sight as if the ἀποφεύγοντας of 2 Peter 2:18 were meant: but on close inspection it is plain that this is not so, but that we are continuing the description of the δοῦλοι τῆς φθορᾶς, viz. . Most commentators have concluded, however, that "they" are the false teachers who have been the main subject of Peter"s warning throughout this chapter and in the immediately preceding verses ( 2 Peter 2:18-19). 173-175, and also in my Commentary on Mark, pp. 20.For if after. Only here. of There have always been false prop… 2 Peter 1 Commentary; 2 Peter 2 Commentary; 2 Peter 3 Commentary; EXPOSITOR'S GREEK TESTAMENT Commentary on 2 Peter R H Strachan. 104. But if, after having been healed, and escaped the death to which we were exposed, we get again entangled, εμπλακεντες, enfolded, enveloped with them; then the latter end will be worse than the beginning: forasmuch as we shall have sinned against more light, and the soul, by its conversion to God, having had all its powers and faculties greatly improved, is now, being repolluted, more capable of iniquity than before, and can bear more expressively the image of the earthly. 20. 10:26, 27. After they have escaped (αποπυγοντες — apophugontes). 2 Peter 2:20. τοῦ κόσμου, here in an ethical sense, as composed of those who walk (2 Peter 2:18) ἐν πλάνῃ, or, with Wiesinger: “as the dominion over which sin rules,” “the defilements which belong to the world.” Without sufficient reason, Hofmann takes τὰ μιάσματα τ. κ. in a personal sense, and thinks that it means, in the first instance, “those individuals who are the abomination and blemishes of the non-Christian world, and that τούτοις δέ refers to the Christians whom Peter designates as the σπίλοι κ. μῶμοι of the church.” But nothing in the context hints at this, and it is arbitrary to understand by τούτοις other μιάσματα than those designated by that word itself. 2 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:21. The Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read, our Lord, and the latter leave out, "and Saviour"; by which "knowledge" is meant, not a spiritual experimental knowledge of Christ, for that is eternal life, the beginning, pledge, and earnest of it; but a notional knowledge of Christ, or a profession of knowledge of him, for it may be rendered "acknowledgment"; or rather the Gospel of Christ, which, being only notionally received, may have such an effect on men, as outwardly to reform their lives, at least in some instances, and for a while, in whose hearts it has no place. * Knowledge: a key term in the letter (2 Pt 1:3, 8; 2:20; 3:18), perhaps used as a Christian emphasis against gnostic claims. 11:24-26; 12:47, 48; 1Кор. 2 Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped (AAPMPN) the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in (APPMPN) them and are overcome (3PPPI) the last state has become (3SRAI) worse for them than the first. Bengel, Hofmann, etc.) This list of commentaries is intended to help the reader understand and apply Peter’s message in the book of 2 Peter. He then alone makes a right progress in the gospel who faithfully learns Christ; and he truly knows Christ, who has been taught by him to put off the old man and to put on the new man, as Paul reminds us in Ephesians 4:22 (174). John 8:36. They were still learning the rudiments on which their faith would be built. Commentary on 2 Peter 2:17-22 (Read 2 Peter 2:17-22) 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. Blum, p282.] pollutions. After my decease: Peter seemed aware of the significance of the passing of the apostles and the need to preserve the authoritative teaching of the apostles and prophets. Listen to Pastor Robert Furrow as he continues his Commentary on the book of 2 Peter picking up today in chapter 1, verse 12. 2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". Christ. Beyond the fact, however, that the same term ‘escaped’ is used here as in 2 Peter 2:18, there is little to favour so remarkable a change from object to subject. The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - designating in full the great and gracious One from whom they fall. To whom does this description apply? Their "first" state was eternal damnation without having heard the gospel, but their "last" worse state was eternal damnation having rejected the gospel. joined with a becoming external conversation; and this their last Лк. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/2-peter-2.html. избегнув скверн мира «Скверны» означали гнилые ядовитые испарения. Luke 1:77.) 12:45 ) . Pollutions - which bring "corruption" (2 Peter 2:19). 4 For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. The whole statement is introduced simply in confirmation of what was said in the previous verse of the bondage in which those live who are overcome of sin. they are again entangled therein; in the pollutions of the world, in worldly lusts, which are as gins, pits and snares: and overcome; by them, so as to be laden with them, and led away, and entirely governed and influenced by them: is worse with them than the beginning; see Matthew 12:45. The Second Epistle of Peter, often referred to as Second Peter and written 2 Peter or in Roman numerals II Peter (especially in older references), is a book of the New Testament of the Bible, traditionally held to have been written by Apostle Peter.Most critical biblical scholars have concluded Peter is not the author, considering the epistle pseudepigraphical. sin and immorality, which made their case worse than it was at Therefore, none of the statements in context to 2:20-20 are dealing with Christians except as they relate to avoiding false teachers. 459-460). world lies in wickedness, and which are of a defiling nature: the The false teachers and their judgment (2 Peter 2:1-3).Historical illustration of Divine judgment on the wicked, and care of the righteous (2 Peter 2:4-10 a). Often they first have to build up a level of understanding of what sin is, of what God is, and of what God’s requirements are, before they can even begin to go on to the deeper truths. Commentary on 2 Peter 2:17-22 (Read 2 Peter 2:17-22) 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. The “reasons” for this may be:(1)that they are willing now to show to others that they are no longer under the restraints by which they had professedly bound themselves; We can compare the problems that missionaries had, and have, before they can be sure that someone has been truly ‘converted’. 2 Peter 2:20. 2 Peter 2:20. ἀποφυγόντες, after they have escaped) This is spoken of those who are enticed, as in 2 Peter 2:18. In 3:1, he referred to this letter ashis ‘second letter’. "first" state was eternal damnation without having heard the gospel, but their "last" worse state was eternal damnation having rejected the gospel. Miroslav Volf. They were by it brought into the. They were by it brought into the way of truth, the right way, the way of righteousness. 2 Peter 3. But let them be warned. A. This, the written teaching of the apostles and their associates, is the foundation of the church (Ephesians 2:20) preserved by … first; for, generally, such persons are more extravagant in Thus, it is with those who have been addicted to any habits of vice, and who profess to become religious, and then fall away. For if after they have escaped, &c.— For inasmuch as having escaped. 1. Cf.2 Timothy 2:4, , . Through the knowledge of Christ — That is, through faith in him, 2 Peter 1:3. (See above on 2 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 3:13; 2 Peter 3:15; and below, 2 Peter 3:5.). No matter how clean we are on the outside, if the inside, the nature, the heart, remains unchanged, or if we resort again to habitual sin, we will return to what we came from and once more be filthy both inside and out. This, the written teaching of the apostles and their associates, is the foundation of the church (Ephesians 2:20) preserved by … Defends Johannine authorship. 459-460). The particle δέ places in antithesis either the two participles: ἀποφυγόντες and πάλιν ἐμπλακέντες, or the first participle and the finite verb ἡττῶνται; the former construction is to be preferred as the more correct. 2 Peter 1:2-3; 2 Peter 1:8. εἰ γάρ] The reality, as frequently, expressed hypothetically. 2 Peter 2:20 gives an explanation ( γάρ, equal to: namely) of the statement contained in 2 Peter 2:19, that those there described are the δοῦλοι τῆς φθορᾶς, after that the general remark: ᾧ … δεδούλωται has been applied to them. . Knowledge, [ epignoosei (Greek #1922)] - 'full knowledge.' They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves. They have gone into a wrong way: they have erred and strayed from the way of life, and gone over into the path which leads to death, and takes hold of hell; and this he makes out by showing it to be the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor. empleko. Hebrews 10:26-27. Some interpreters believe the antecedent is the new Christians Peter mentioned at the end of, [Note: E.g, Duane A. Dunham, "An Exegetical Study of2Peter2:18-22," Bibliotheca Sacra140:557 (January-March1983):40-54.]. Calvary Tucson Teachings Archive: 2 Peter 1:12-19. 10:1-12; Евр. And he exhibits the heinousness of the evil by a comparison; for it was no common sin to depart from the holy doctrine of God. 1 Peter 1:14). 39:34), occurs only here in N.T. In the word overcome, there is a reference to what is said, 2 Peter 2:19. There is no other major commentary on 2 Peter and Jude to match this one: it is expert, thorough, balanced and lucidly written. Clarke's 2-peter 2:20 Bible Commentary The pollutions of the world - Sin in general, and particularly superstition, idolatry, and lasciviousness. What does 2 Peter 1:20 mean about interpreting Scripture? 2 Peter 1:4. In terms unmistakeably recalling, if not literally repeating, our Lord’s own words in Matthew 12:45, that state of relapse is declared to be worse than their original state of paganism—worse because no longer excused by ‘ignorance’ (cf. If one who has been converted is enticed back again into his sins, his state is worse than before. 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:. If new Christians are in view here, their earlier worldly life contrasts with their later worldly life under God"s discipline. 2 Peter 2:20 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] 2 Peter 2:20, NIV: "If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning." And carefully note that these people are going to end up lost, if they don’t repent. Peter stated this as a fact and not as a possibility; and he said they were among you, not only on the outside of the church. on StudyLight.org And their knowledge of ethics was very distorted. (2 Peter) Peter's second letter (EasyEnglish Bible) Jesus will return (2 Peter) A Commentary by Hilda Bright and Helen Pocock Peter clearly understands that Satan is somewhere in the picture, and he wants us to be encouraged, to be filled with hope, because these ungodly people, though they appear to be gaining strength, are still under God's control. In the case of the teachers ... such a description of utter ruin is entirely appropriate." The context is not dealing with Christians. 1). Certain theological and textual problems in 2 Peter 2 may perplex the serious Bible student. The more earnest then ought we to be, to advance humbly and carefully in the course of our calling. To illustrate, suppose I have the cure for cancer in a pill, and you have cancer. [Note: Gangel, p874.] All rights reserved. 2 Peter 2:19 b). 2:1 But 1 there were false prophets also among the a 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 upon themselves swift destruction. ◄ 2 Peter 2:20 ► If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. Greek. of the world, in (element and condition of their escape) knowledge ( ἐπιγνώσει, genuine and accurate knowledge: shewing that he is treating of men who have not been mere professors of spiritual grace, but real possessors of it) of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (expressed at length, to set forth more solemnly that from which they fall), but having again become entangled in these, they are overcome (the construction is ordinarily regarded as broken by the δέ, placed as if ἀποφύγωσιν and not ἀποφυγόντες had preceded: “if, after they have, &c., they are again entangled and overcome,” as E. V. But it is better to regard ἡττῶνται as the apodosis to both the participial clauses, and δέ as coupling them to each other), their last state is (we cannot say in English “has become,” for we thereby convey an idea that it was not always so, but has undergone a change) worse than the first ( αὐτοῖς, dat. The words translated our God and savior Jesus Christ could also be rendered “our God and the savior Jesus Christ”; cf. "Commentary on 2 Peter 2:20". πᾶσα … οὐ need not be regarded as a Hebraism. Peter wants to remind (1:12) those believers who “have obtained a faith of equal standing” (1:1) of what they have been given by belief. Others think they are the unstable, unsaved people who were listening to the gospel. 2 Peter 2:20-21 says, “For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Those who believe that loss of salvation is what Peter was talking about in this verse and in 2 Peter 2:21-22 have to deal with an insuperable problem. We believe that 1 Peter was his first letter to thesereaders. Jeannine K. Brown “Silent Wives, Verbal Believers: Ethical and Hermeneutical Considerations in 1 Peter 3:1-6 and Its Context.” Word and World 24 (2004): 395-403. 2-peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. “Worse” stands opposed to “better” (2 Peter 2:21). ... 2 Peter 2 . But I do not wish to focus on what is unclear about our text, but what is becoming increasingly clear. By the world we may understand here the unbelieving and wicked world; and more especiallythe idolatrous Gentiles. Only here in New Testament. See what Jesus said in, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, E.M. Zerr's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament. Jude 6; other manuscripts in 2 Peter read “pits of Tartarus.” Tartarus : a term borrowed from Greek mythology to indicate the infernal regions. Таким образом, они совершили отступничество как народ в Евр. The Christian religion is, through divine grace, of a purifying nature: ch. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the Therefore, none of the statements in context to 2:20-20 are dealing with Christians except as they relate to avoiding false teachers. These are called μιασματα, miasmata, things that infect, pollute, and defile. be worse than the former, lest you be like a dog that returns to his vomit, or like a sow that is washed and wallows again in the mire. they are again entangled therein; 2 peter 2 would suggest to me at first glance that indeed for one to choose to walk after the flesh would result in slavery to that sin resulting in self deception as the power of sin rules. “Reformed” drunkards, if they go back to their “cups” again, become more abandoned than ever. In favour of this view may be urged the term ἀποφυγόντες, which seems to refer back to the ἀποφευγόντας in 2 Peter 2:18. The ‘knowledge’ of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which is attributed here to these apostates is the same kind of knowledge as has been already spoken of in chap. People's Bible Notes for 2 Peter 2:20. (Confirming One’s Calling and Election. in the pollutions of the world, in worldly lusts, which are as The False Teachers appealed to the O.T. knowledge, and profession, their punishment will be more 2Pe 2:20 The latter end is worse with them than the beginning. The problem Peter addresses is one he places on our door step, one we must not and dare not avoid. by them, so as to be laden with them, and led away, and entirely "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into … It would have been better for them, he says, not to have known the way of righteousness; for though there is no excuse for ignorance, yet the servant who knowingly and wilfully despises the commands of his lord, deserves a twofold punishment. ‘the last state has become worse for them than the first’-‘A servant who willfully disobeys his master is far more culpable than one who disobeys through ignorance…(Luke 12:47-48).’ (Green p. 119) Jesus taught the same truth (Matthew 12:45; Luke 11:26). The words translated our God and savior Jesus Christ could also be rendered “our God and the savior Jesus Christ”; cf. We must now consider each sentence. 2 Peter 2:4 Some manuscripts in gloomy dungeons; 2 Peter 2:10 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verse 18. It is printed as a single paragraph in the ASV, but a workable outline of it is given by Strachan, thus: [1]. “Worse Off Than At The Beginning” 2 Peter 2:20-22 June 17, 2012 SI: This little letter from Apostle Peter takes you to the heights and to the depths. Proud member By naming the pollutions of the world, he shews that we roll in filth and are wholly polluted, until we renounce the world. Although at times God will surprise them with vessels specially prepared by Him. Study the bible online using commentary on 2 Peter 2 and more! the condition of complete slavery to the φθορά, from which there is no hope of redemption: with the thought, cf. The pollutions of the world - Sin in general, and particularly superstition, idolatry, and lasciviousness. There are exegetical commentaries, scholarly and technical commentaries, as well as commentaries that are easy to understand. The pollutions of the world; those more gross wickednesses in which most of the world still lieth, 1 John 5:19. We tend to forget that while Jews and those familiar with Judaism already had a background which enabled easier understanding of Christian truth, and therefore enabled speedier conversion, out and out pagans had no such background to build on. The sins of it, the governing vices of it, which the men of the world are addicted to, and immersed in; for the whole world lies in wickedness, and which are of a defiling nature: the phrase is Rabbinical; it is saidF17Zohar in Gen. fol. 2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Study 2 Peter 2 using B. W. Johnson’s Bible Commentary to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. They who live in vice, do not know Christ; but by the true knowledge of Christ men are freed from vice. governed and influenced by them: is worse with them than the beginning; The word ευπλακεντες, rendered entangled, signifies taken in a toil, or snare; see Proverbs 28:18 in the LXX. ], For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world in the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last, the element in, and the means by which, the escape was made, showing that it was not a mere external reformation and a profession of religion without saving grace, as some theologians would have it, but a true experience of its blessed power. 2 Peter 1. 2. Now if, after all this knowledge and reformation. aggravated, and become intolerable. Their beginning, or first estate, was that in which they were born, a state of darkness, ignorance, and sin, and in which they were brought up, and was either the state of Judaism, or of Gentilism; their next estate was an outward deliverance and escape from the error of the one, or of the other, and an embracing and professing the truth of the Christian religion, joined with a becoming external conversation; and this their last estate was an apostasy from the truth of the Gospel they had professed, a reception of error and heresy, and a relapse into sin and immorality, which made their case worse than it was at first; for, generally, such persons are more extravagant in sinning; are like raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; and are seldom, or ever, recovered; and by their light, knowledge, and profession, their punishment will be more aggravated, and become intolerable. 2 Peter 2:20-22. (Isidor. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. If you purposely return to sin, it will be much worse than before and much more difficult to escape from!!! &c.] The sins of it, the governing vices of it, which the men [Note: Cf. After my decease: Peter seemed aware of the significance of the passing of the apostles and the need to preserve the authoritative teaching of the apostles and prophets. See 2 Timothy 2:4. world, (2)that God gives them up to indulgence with fewer restraints than formerly; and, 45.) they were born, a state of darkness, ignorance, and sin, and in The saying is our Lord’s own: see reff. ΄ιασματα, pollutions, is not found elsewhere in the New Testament. The fake teachers themselves are still the subjects, and what is affirmed of them is a state of relapse into the ‘pollutions’ (the word is peculiar to this passage, although another form of it occurs in 2 Peter 2:10) of heathenism from which they had once separated themselves. 3. The word was anciently used, and is in use at the present day, to express those noxious particles of effluvia proceeding from persons infected with contagious and dangerous diseases; or from dead and corrupt bodies, stagnant and putrid waters, marshes etc., by which the sound and healthy may be infected and destroyed. You cannot separate Jesus as Savior from Jesus as Lord. * Knowledge: a key term in the letter (2 Pt 1:3, 8; 2:20; 3:18), perhaps used as a Christian emphasis against gnostic claims. IX. However, the early church fathers found no good reason to reject it. Even the idea of only one God was new to them and had to be absorbed. They assume that ἀποφυγόντες refers to those who are led astray, and that the latter accordingly, and not the seducers, are to be regarded as the subject of the clause. This month we will consider another difficult passage in 2 Peter. [Note: Thomas, p273.]. The “reasons” for this may be: (1)that they are willing now to show to others that they are no longer under the restraints by which they had professedly bound themselves; (2)that God gives them up to indulgence with fewer restraints than formerly; and. Commentary on 2 Peter. 1 Peter 2:20 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] 1 Peter 2:20, NIV: "But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it?But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God." At times we just think that God is going to give former faithful Christians, who go into error, a break. Compare 2 Peter 3:18. entangled. The best 2 Peter commentaries are listed below. gins, pits and snares: and overcome; 2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. The pollutions of the world, were idolatry, superstition, and vice. John W. Ritenbaugh The Beatitudes, Part 6: The Pure in Heart For if flying, and been happily freed from the pollutions, the abominations, and corruptions of a wicked world, be upon your guard, and take great care not to be entangled again in these dangerous snares and nets, lest your latter condition (as Christ said, Matthew xii. Trickery Of Satan - The Doctrine Of Balaam Contributed by Anitha Jabastion on Jul 5, 2020 based on 1 rating | 1,294 views. I think it is more likely that the false teachers in view here, as in the rest of the chapter, were unsaved. 2 Peter 2 - 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 upon themselves swift destruction. Are not just a hypothetical possibility that is, ‘ I can now do things... See Note on 2 2 peter 2:20 commentary 2:20. ἀποφυγόντες, which seems to refer back to their followers who had one! 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