2 Peter 2:14-15

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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:15

2 Peter 2:15. Which have forsaken the right way,— It is called the way of righteousness, 2Pe 2:21 which leads to happiness; but turning aside to error and vice, is wandering out of the way into forbidden paths, which lead to misery and destruction. Perhaps the apostle here alluded to Num 22:32 when the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Thy way is perverse before me. The wages of unrighteousness are called the rewards of divination, Num 22:7 namely, the riches and honour which he sought by... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 2:14

14. full of adultery—literally, "full of an adulteress," as though they carried about adulteresses always dwelling in their eyes: the eye being the avenue of lust [HORNEIUS]. BENGEL makes the adulteress who fills their eyes, to be "alluring desire." that cannot cease—"that cannot be made to cease from sin." beguiling—"laying baits for." unstable—not firmly established in faith and piety. heart—not only the eyes, which are the channel, but the heart, the fountain head of lust. Job 31:7, "Mine... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 2:15

15. have—Some of the seducers are spoken of as already come, others as yet to come. following—out: so the Greek. the way— (Numbers 22:23; Numbers 22:32; Isaiah 56:11). son of Bosor—the same as Beor (Numbers 22:5). This word was adopted, perhaps, because the kindred word Basar means flesh; and Balaam is justly termed son of carnality, as covetous, and the enticer of Israel to lust. loved the wages of unrighteousness—and therefore wished (in order to gain them from Balak) to curse Israel whom God... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:10-19

C. The Conduct of False Teachers 2:10b-19Peter next emphasized the conduct of false teachers to motivate his readers to turn away from them. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:14

The person who has eyes full of adultery is one who thinks only of fornication when he or she sees members of the opposite sex. The false teachers sinned without restraint (cf. Matthew 5:28). Furthermore they lured people not firmly committed to Jesus Christ to join them, as a fisherman lures his prey. They had considerable experience practicing greed and were experts in it. They behaved like children, undisciplined and self-centered, and were under God’s judgment. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:15

The false prophet Balaam counseled Balak, the king of Moab, to invite the Israelites to participate with his people in a feast to honor Moab’s gods (Numbers 31:16). The best textual evidence suggests that Peter wrote, "Balaam the son of Bosor," Bosor being a play on the Hebrew word basar, "flesh." Thus Peter indicated Balaam’s immoral character by calling him the "son of flesh." [Note: Ibid., pp. 267-68.] The Moabite worship included sacred prostitution (cf. Numbers 25:1-3). Balaam is "the... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 2 Peter 2:14

2:14 covetousness, (m-20) Or 'carnal desire and seeking to seduce,' 'practised in seduction' is the sense. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-22

Warning Against a Threatened Plague of Brutal False TeachersAs 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 they have not already begun-he expects will trouble his readers. Prophets were important persons in the early Church: cp. Acts 11:27; 1 Corinthians 12:28.; 1 Corinthians 14:29.; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 3:5; Ephesians 4:11. These teachers, who had doubtless been baptised, claimed, it would seem, to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Peter 2:14

(14) Of adultery.—Literally, of an adulteress. This verse has no counterpart in Jude.That cannot cease from sin.—Literally, that cannot be made to cease from sin. (Comp. attentively 1 Peter 4:1.) It was precisely because these men refused to “suffer in the flesh,” but, on the contrary, gave the flesh all possible licence on principle, that they could not “cease from sin.”Beguiling.—Strictly, enticing with bait. We have the same word in 2 Peter 2:18, James 1:14, and nowhere else. If “deceits” be... read more

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