Verse 20
20. The servants of corruption, not their victims, are meant.
Escaped The same word as in 2 Peter 2:18 and 2 Peter 1:4.
Through the knowledge Rather, in the true, ripe, full knowledge; the element in, and the means by which, the escape was made, showing that it was not a mere external reformation and a profession of religion without saving grace, as some theologians would have it, but a true experience of its blessed power. They were by it brought into the way of truth, the right way, the way of righteousness. 2 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:21.
Entangled Interwoven with them.
Overcome And so again enslaved.
The latter end Their last state of vice, that is, since their apostasy, is worse lower and fouler than the first.
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