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. The saying is our Lord’s own: see reff. 2 Peter 2:20-21 New International Version (NIV). Biblical Commentary (Bible Study) 2 Peter 3:8-15a EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Peter is writing to encourage Christians to live Godly lives (1:3) that they “may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust” (1:4). 2 Peter 2:20. Although at times God will surprise them with vessels specially prepared by Him. latter end is worse  …  than the beginning — Peter remembers Christ‘s words. sin and immorality, which made their case worse than it was at 2 Peter 3. Blum, p282.] Trickery Of Satan - The Doctrine Of Balaam Contributed by Anitha Jabastion on Jul 5, 2020 based on 1 rating | 1,294 views. What does 2 Peter 3:8 mean when it says a thousand years are a day? 2 Peter 2:22. 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. take the persons in view to be the dupes of the false teachers. 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. . 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; xvii. 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:. 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. shame; and are seldom, or ever, recovered; and by their light, Study 2 Peter 2 using B. W. Johnson’s Bible Commentary to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. 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. Greater privilege results in greater responsibility, and greater punishment if one rejects the privilege. 2 Peter 1:4. John 15:2-3. “Reformed” drunkards, if they go back to their “cups” again, become more abandoned than ever. 2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. St. Augustine has improved on this image: "The whole world," says he, "is one great diseased man, lying extended from east to west, and from north to south; and to heal this great sick man, the almighty Physician descended from heaven." The word ευπλακεντες, rendered entangled, signifies taken in a toil, or snare; see Proverbs 28:18 in the LXX. 4 For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. The world is here represented as one large, putrid marsh, or corrupt body, sending off its destructive miasmata everywhere and in every direction, so that none can escape its contagion, and none can be healed of the great epidemic disease of sin, but by the mighty power and skill of God. 1 Peter 2:3. The pollutions of the world, were idolatry, superstition, and vice. 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). They have come among Christians in order to learn the truth, and as a result of being among them and worshipping with them, their past has dropped off. Therefore, none of the statements in context to 2:20-20 are dealing with Christians except as they relate to avoiding false teachers. 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. Context: Argument of the book of Second Peter deals with false teachers in the last days. These are called μιασματα, miasmata, things that infect, pollute, and defile. It is in admirable harmony, therefore, with the previous ‘entice in the lusts of the flesh’ (2 Peter 2:18). 2 Peter 2:20 "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning." Advocates of once-saved-always-saved try to argue that these people were never Christians in the first place, or simply marginal Christians. By the knowledge of Christ he no doubt understands the gospel. Some (e.g. solil, ii.). ‘It is also true….. that the apostate frequently goes deeper into sin, and with less restraint, than he did formerly.’. Last month we considered 2 Peter 1:10-11. 2. 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. 2 Peter 2:21; Matthew 11:20-24; Luke 16:24; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Galatians 6:7). "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into … The best 2 Peter commentaries are listed below. 2 Peter 3:10 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." “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. The Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read, our Lord, And their knowledge of ethics was very distorted. him, for it may be rendered "acknowledgment"; or rather the 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. Through the knowledge.—Better, in knowledge the preposition “in” pointing to that in which the escape consists. [Note: Cf. (Confirming One’s Calling and Election. 459-460). Commentary on 2 Peter. τὰ μιάσματα τοῦ κόσμου] τὰ μιάσματα, a form occurring only here; 2 Peter 2:10 : μιασμός. The words translated our God and savior Jesus Christ could also be rendered “our God and the savior Jesus Christ”; cf. Their "first" state was eternal damnation without having heard the gospel, but their "last" worse state was eternal damnation having rejected the gospel. Cf.2 Timothy 2:4, , . 1. aggravated, and become intolerable. Defends Johannine authorship. (1.) To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world -, Through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesses Christ -, They are again entangled therein and overcome -. Peter’s authorship of 2 Peter has been challenged more than that of any other book in the New Testament. . John W. Ritenbaugh The Beatitudes, Part 6: The Pure in Heart By naming the pollutions of the world, he shews that we roll in filth and are wholly polluted, until we renounce the world. See on 2 Peter 2:4. they were born, a state of darkness, ignorance, and sin, and in Have escaped the pollutions of the world — The sins which pollute all who know not God. If men have escaped. A Christian can fall away, in fact, Christians in positions of leadership can also fall into error (Acts 20:29-31). We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. I think it is more likely that the false teachers in view here, as in the rest of the chapter, were unsaved. 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. We did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Now, it is by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as says St. Peter, that we escape the destructive influence of these contagious miasmata . and 2 Timothy 2:4. 1 John 2:15-17; John 7:7 (See Scofield "Revelation 13:8"). The greeting is especially similar to those in 1 Peter and Jude. They had escaped from the world by the full knowledge of Jesus Christ. Compare 2 Peter 2:10. knowledge. pollutions. The body is sacred to God, and to give licentious rein to the passions is . What does it mean that there will be scoffers in the last days? Again entangled] As a bird in a gin, as a beast in a snare. There are exegetical commentaries, scholarly and technical commentaries, as well as commentaries that are easy to understand. Some interpreters believe the antecedent is the new Christians Peter mentioned at the end of 2 Peter 2:18. Scripture teaches degrees of punishment as well as differences in rewards (cf. избегнув скверн мира «Скверны» означали гнилые ядовитые испарения. The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - designating in full the great and gracious One from whom they fall. It would seem that these people had not yet come to saving faith in Christ. ‘defilements’-‘polluting influences’(TCNT). "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". 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. . As clouds hinder the light of the sun, so do these darken counsel by words wherein there is no truth. Here again, the subsequent clause makes it perfectly clear what Peter said, and fully justifies the KJV rendition in 2 Peter 2:18. estate was an apostasy from the truth of the Gospel they had The knowledge that liberates, is the knowledge of Jesus Christ, which includes rules (John 14:15) that one must keep and a lifestyle that one must live. And these are entangled in the calamity of those who ensnare them: they are overcome.— μιάσματα, pollutions) bringing corruption.— τούτοις) to these, the impure.— δὲ, but) This particle marks the antithesis between two participles.— χείρονα, worse) Antithetical to better, 2 Peter 2:21. In the case of the teachers ... such a description of utter ruin is entirely appropriate." phrase is Rabbinical; it is said F17. The latter end is worse with them than the beginning; professors of religion who go back again into sin, become worse in character and condition than they were before. Through a pretence of Christian liberty, they were again entangled in the vices of the heathen world. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first. It is printed as a single paragraph in the ASV, but a workable outline of it is given by Strachan, thus: [1]. If you purposely return to sin, it will be much worse than before and much more difficult to escape from!!! For full discussion of this, see in my Commentary on Matthew, pp. 1). Even the idea of only one God was new to them and had to be absorbed. (2 Peter) Peter's second letter (EasyEnglish Bible) Jesus will return (2 Peter) A Commentary by Hilda Bright and Helen Pocock By the world we may understand here the unbelieving and wicked world; and more especiallythe idolatrous Gentiles. 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. They escaped the defilements of the world in the sense that they had understood the gospel, acceptance of which liberates the sinner. The pollutions of the world - Sin in general, and particularly superstition, idolatry, and lasciviousness. Recently I received a question from a reader about 2 Peter 2:20-22. , 2 Peter 2:10, and , Judges 1:8. is the world in the sense of the heathen society and its practises. If while doing so they simply allow themselves to be entangled again in such defilements and are overcome by them, their last state is worse than the first. 173-175, and also in my Commentary on Mark, pp. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:21. He felt that it dealt with unbelievers who knew about the gospel but had never really accepted it in their hearts. 1079). ◄ 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. knowledge, and profession, their punishment will be more miasma. The apostate teachers in view in this chapter are in a state of total rejection of Christ, having thereby committed the sin against the Holy Spirit, called by Mark, "an eternal sin." (20) L.). through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 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. God knows how to deliver His people from their schemes—even as He delivered Noah, Lot, and others in the past from plots that were going on in their days. 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.]. John H. Elliot “1 Peter.” Anchor Bible Commentary (New York: Doubleday, 2000), 94. It is their condition in this mortal life and at the judgment seat of Christ that is in view, not their eternal damnation. ‘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). How could Peter say the false teachers had escaped the defilements of the world by the "full knowledge" (Gr. 2Pe 2:20 The latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Popular Articles 20 Powerful Bible Verses to Help You Be Patient Aaron Brown The scope of that argument, including commentary on all the other verses that play a part in the final decision, is too large to handle here, and in this entry we will only explain why 2 Peter 2:20-22 does not show that a person who has been born again can lose his salvation. Но лжеучителя никогда искренне не обращались ко Христу. ... 2 Peter 2 . see ( Matthew Dr. Kenneth Gangel offers a summary of the reasons Peter wrote his second letter. There have always been false prop… The arrogant attitude is, ‘I can now do those things, without becoming addicted, etc..’ But such in impossible. ‘For if after they have escaped’-There is some question concerning whether the “they” in this verse applies to the false teachers just mentioned or their converts. 2 Peter 2 - But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. 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. Hebrews 10:26-27. John W. Ritenbaugh The Beatitudes, Part 6: The Pure in Heart escape from the error of the one, or of the other, and an θείας, 2 Peter 2:2) than, having known it (dat. notional knowledge of Christ, or a profession of knowledge of The latter end is worse with them than the beginning.—Most certainly this should be made to correspond with Matthew 12:45, of which it is almost an exact reproduction—their last state is worse than the first. [Note: Albert Barnes, Barnes" Notes on the New Testament, p1454.]. Through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesses Christ - Neither does This imply that they were true Christians, or that they had ever had any saving knowledge of the Redeemer. What does it mean to grow in grace? Scripture: Philippians 2:5-8, Hebrews 12:1-3, Luke 14:25-35, 2 Peter 2:20. . The latter end is worse with them than the beginning - This is usually the case. 1870.return to 'Jump List'. Greater privilege results in greater responsibility, and greater punishment if one rejects the privilege. It institutes a solemn comparison between two different conditions of the same individuals. i. Escaped— The same word as in 2 Peter 2:18 and 2 Peter 1:4. 2 Peter 2:20. ἀποφυγόντες, after they have escaped) This is spoken of those who are enticed, as in 2 Peter 2:18. Another answer is that Peter was referring to false teachers who were Christians. That is a way of unrighteousness into which men are led by the wages of unrighteousness. The context is not dealing with Christians. Learn hence, That a person may forsake many gross and scandalous sins, and have a visible change and reformation wrought in his life; but, not being a thorough and prevailing change, he is still in an unsafe state; his latter end may be worse than the beginning. "Worse" stands opposed to "better" (2 Peter 2:21). Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. 2.) 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. of In LXX the word seems to have a technical religious sense, the profanation of flesh by ordinary use which is set apart for sacrifice. Cf.Matthew 12:45, Luke 11:26, and Hebrews 6:4-8; Hebrews 10:26. 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. [Note: Thomas, p273.]. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world - This does not necessarily mean that they had been true Christians, and had fallen from grace. Now, if afterwards they return to it again, and are intangled in their idolatry, and other gross sins, their latter end is worse than their beginning, their Christian Heathenism worse than their old Heathenism. By escaping the pollutions of the world, understand their renouncing of them in baptism; their conversion from Heathenism to the profession of Christianity, by the knowledge of the gospel. “Reformed” drunkards, if they go back to their “cups” again, become more abandoned than ever. Through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; such a knowledge of Christ as brings with it an outward reformation of life, though it do not purify the heart. incommodi. Bibliographical InformationBarnes, Albert. The words latter end are from a Greek word that is defined "last state" in the lexicon. 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. This, the written teaching of the apostles and their associates, is the foundation of the church (Ephesians 2:20) preserved by … Clarke's 2-peter 2:20 Bible Commentary The pollutions of the world - Sin in general, and particularly superstition, idolatry, and lasciviousness. Они слышали истинное Благовестие и принимали его, но впоследствии отвергли истинного Христа. The same metaphor occurs in Aeschylus (“Prometheus”): “For not on a sudden or in ignorance will ye be entangled ( ἐμπλεχθήσεσθε ) by your folly in an impervious net of Ate (destruction ). 2 Peter 2:20-22. The true point of this passage is to show that the persons referred to never were changed; that whatever external reformation might have occurred, their nature remained the same; and that when they apostatized from their outward profession, they merely acted out their nature, and showed in fact there had been no real change." By hearing of Christ and coming to a knowledge of Him and His holy requirements, they have escaped the defilements of the world and its twisted morality. That was why they were so vulnerable. It is David who calls us to “taste and see that the Lord is good,' and we who have trusted in Christ as Saviour have truly tasted of the goodness of God in our own lives, and have seen in abundance the loving-kindness and forgiveness of our gracious heavenly Father.How blessed is the man who tastes of the goodness of the Lord and takes refuge in Him. You can find the best commentary on 2 Peter/Jude for you using the tools on the right side. in the pollutions of the world, in worldly lusts, which are as 20.The servants of corruption, not their victims, are meant. The only point the apostle is making at this place in the man"s life, is a comparison between his state at the two periods of his experience. Only here. In this view Peter"s "if" introduces a hypothetical possibility that is not true to reality. Without any reason, Grotius would read: “ οἱ γάρ” instead of εἰ γάρ. 2 Pt 1:11; 2:20; 3:2, 18. Peter remembers Christ (Luke 11:26). The false teachers had thrown their key to deliverance away and had thereby become entangled and overcome again by the defilements of the world (cf. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Greek. Nothing pollutes or infects the minds of men like vice and wickedness: the world, or multitude, being generally infected, is apt to infect others. (3)their old companions in sin may be at special pains to court their society, and to lead them into temptation, in order to obtain a triumph over virtue and religion. 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). Luke 1:77.) Author: 2 Peter 1:1 specifically states that the apostle Peter was the author of 2 Peter. (Isidor. Таким образом, они совершили отступничество как народ в Евр. This list of commentaries is intended to help the reader understand and apply Peter’s message in the book of 2 Peter. It seems very unlikely that now, at the climax of his exhortation, he would focus on the few false teachers that might have been Christians. Listen to Pastor Robert Furrow as he continues his Commentary on the book of 2 Peter picking up today in chapter 1, verse 12. My understanding of the passage follows. This final impassioned plea to grow in Christian maturity (2Pe 1:5, 6, 7, 3:18) and guard against false teachers was precipitated by the fact that [Peter’s] time was short (2Peter 1:13, 14, 15) and that these congregations faced immediate danger (2Peter 2:1, 2, 3). εἰ γάρ] The reality, as frequently, expressed hypothetically. Greek. ‘they are again entangled in them’-like fish caught in a net. Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ. Here, again, loosely introduces the subject of the victims allured by the false teachers away from their former faith. Their escape was possible because they had heard the gospel. You cannot separate Jesus as Savior from Jesus as Lord. 2 Peter 3:7 REV and Commentary - But by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been preserved for fire, being ke - Bible verse Theywere Christians who lived in the country that we now call Turkey. 2 Pt 1:11; 2:20; 3:2, 18. 2 Peter3:17-18 $ 2.00: 2 Peter Audio Commentary - Individual Sessions quantity. knowledge — Greek, “full and accurate knowledge.”. 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