Verse 19
By promising freedom from eschatological judgment to their hearers while they themselves were the slaves of corruption, the false teachers were ". . . like a 300-pound man selling diet books." [Note: Gangel, p. 873.] Slavery, after all, occurs whenever one is under the control of some influence, not just some other person.
"The false teachers reveal the futility of their promise of freedom from moral requirements by living lives enslaved to immorality themselves." [Note: Moo, p. 144.]
"Seneca [the Greek Stoic philosopher] said, ’To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.’" [Note: William Barclay, The Letters of James and Peter, p. 396.]
"Just as a gifted musician finds freedom and fulfillment putting himself or herself under the discipline of a great artist, or an athlete under the discipline of a great coach, so the believer finds true freedom and fulfillment under the authority of Jesus Christ." [Note: Wiersbe, 2:454.]
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