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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 2:13

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness - The appropriate recompense of their wickedness in the future world. Such people do not always receive the due recompense of their deeds in the present life; and as it is a great and immutable principle that all will be treated, under the government of God, as they deserve, or that justice will be rendered to every rational being, it follows that there must be punishment in the future state.As they that count it pleasure to riot in the day-time -... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 2:14

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 wholly seized and occupied their minds. The eye was, as it were, full of this passion; it saw nothing else but some occasion for its indulgence; it expressed nothing else but the desire. The reference here is to the sacred festival mentioned in the previous verse; and the meaning is, that they... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Peter 2:12-14

2 Peter 2:12-14. 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 to be taken and destroyed by mankind. He speaks chiefly of savage beasts, which men for their own security and preservation hunt down and destroy; speak evil of things that they understand not Namely, the mysteries of Christianity; or magistracy, the institution, use, and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:11-22

Character of the false teachers (2:10b-22)Being arrogant and self-assertive, the false teachers show no respect for anyone. They even insult angels, who hold a higher position than humans in the order of created beings. By contrast, the angels have such reverence for God that they dare not use insulting language in his presence, even against those who deserve condemnation (10b-11).The false teachers use neither their reasoning nor their willpower to control themselves. Like animals they simply... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Peter 2:13

reward = wages. Greek. misthos. unrighteousness . App-128 . Compare 2 Peter 2:15 and Acts 1:18 . as they, &c . = reckoning it (as they do). to riot = living delicately. Greek. truphe. Only here and Luke 7:25 . Compare James 5:5 . the day time . Literally a day. Spots . Greek. spilos. Here and Ephesians 5:27 . blemishes . Greek. momos. Only here. Compare 2 Corinthians 6:3 (blamed). sporting themselves = living delicately. Greek. en - truphao. Only here. Compare trupho, above.... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Peter 2:14

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 . an heart, &c = having a heart. exercised . See 1 Timothy 4:7 . covetous practices = covetousness. cursed children = children ( App-108 .) of (the) curse. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:13

suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceivings while they feast with you;Wrong as the hire of wrong-doing ... is the same as Paul's "wages of sin is death." Evil behavior is its own wages.Revel in the day-time ... "Daytime revelry is a feature of extreme dissipation; for the Christian, the day is the time of work (John 9:4; Romans 13:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:7f)."[45]Spots and blemishes ... These are... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:14

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;Eyes full of adultery ... Wheaton said, "This is a compressed phrase for, 'always looking for a woman with whom to commit adultery.'"[46] Barnett understood it to mean, "Whenever they see a woman, they have licentious thoughts."[47]Enticing unstedfast souls ... The imagery here is that of using a lure, "bait" to catch the unwary. The New English... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:13

2 Peter 2:13. As they that count it pleasure to riot, &c.— Some understand St. Peter as intimating, that they lived in riot and luxury every day. Others suppose the meaning to be, that they took pleasure in that riot, which "endureth only for a day, or for a short season." The apostle seems to allude to the proverbial saying, 1 Thessalonians 5:7. They that are drunken, are drunken in the night: whereas these wicked Christians had cast off all shame, and were so abandoned, as to practise... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:14

2 Peter 2:14. 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. Instead of cannot cease from sin, the original should be rendered, and that cease not from sin: if they could not have ceased from sin, it would have been no crime in them; but they were men of most insatiable desires, and in their eyes one might have read the wickedness of their hearts. In... read more

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