2 Peter 2:13

3. Their viciousness of life, 2 Peter 2:13-18.

13. And shall receive Better, Receiving. This participial clause, ending with unrighteousness, is simply explanatory of perish. Perdition is their duly earned wages.

Count it Rather, Counting it pleasure; commencing with these words a new sentence of pungent invective, which continues through 2 Peter 2:16. In the East it was a shameful disgrace to be drunken in the daytime. So 1 Thessalonians 5:7 describes the custom: “They that be drunken are drunken in the night;” but rioting by day would be a pleasure to these heretical profligates.

Spots Stains upon the Christian name.

Blemishes Disfigurements disgracing the Christian Church. Contrast with 1 Peter 1:19.

Sporting Revelling in the fruits of their deceit or fraud. Instead, however, of απαταις , deceits, Tregelles reads αγαπαις , love-feasts. This would mean that they make the love-feasts occasions for their baseness. But, in either case, feast undoubtedly refers to those festivals.