William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 2:2-3
2:2-3 And many will follow the way of their blatant immoralities and through them the true way will be brought into disrepute. In their evil ambition they will exploit you with cunningly forged arguments. Their sentence was settled long ago, and now it is not inactive, and their destruction is not asleep. In this short passage we see four things about the false teachers and their teaching. (i) We see the cause of false teaching. It is evil ambition. The word is pleonexia ( Greek #4124 ... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 2:1-2
I. In the end of the former chapter there is mention made of holy men of God, who lived in the times of the Old Testament, and were used as the amanuenses of the Holy Ghost, in writing the sacred oracles; but in the beginning of this he tells us they had, even at that time, false prophets in the church as well as true. In all ages of the church, and under all dispensations, when God sends true prophets, the devil sends some to seduce and deceive, false prophets in the Old Testament, and false... read more