2 Peter 2:1
But athere were false prophets also among the people, even as bthere shall be false teachers among you, who *privily shall bring in damnable cheresies, even ddenying the Lord ethat bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Ἐγένοντο δὲ καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται ἐν τῷ λαῷ, ὡς καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν ἔσονται ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι, οἵτινες παρεισάξουσιν αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας, καὶ τὸν ἀγοράσαντα αὐτοὺς δεσπότην ἀρνούμενοι, ἐπάγοντες ἑαυτοῖς ταχινὴν ἀπώλειαν.
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a:
Deuteronomy 13:1-13:3 1. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2. And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3. Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
1 Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
1 Kings 18:22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
Jeremiah 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
Ezekiel 13:3-13:6 3. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. 6. They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Ezekiel 13:16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 13:17 ¶Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
b:
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
*:
privily-secretly.
c:
Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
d:
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Deuteronomy 32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
e:
1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
the apostle having
been exhorting them to continuance and progress in faith, admonishes
them here of such as might labour to draw them from it; and having
made mention of the Old Testament prophets, holy men of God, he hereby
takes occasion to tell them of, and caution them against, false
teachers which would be among themselves. This also in the text
plainly relates to what went before: q.d. Together with those
prophets which were sent by God, there were likewise false prophets,
such as were not sent of him.
the people of Israel.
teachers of false doctrine,
Mat 7:15 Act 20:29.
among you Jewish, as well as among the Gentile
Christians; or, among you as Christians and God’s people under the New
Testament, in opposition to the people of God under the Old.
the Greek word signifies either to
bring in slily and craftily, under specious pretences, and without
being observed, Gal 2:4 Jud 1:4; or, to bring in over and above,
or beside the doctrine of the gospel, which they did not renounce; or
both may be implied.
Greek, heresies of destruction, i.e.
destructive, such as lead to destruction, viz. eternal, or damnation.
either in their words or their practices, either
directly, or by consequence of their doctrines or actions; they that
profess they know God, but contradict that profession in their lives,
are said to deny him, Tit 1:16.
either:
1. God the Father, so called, Luk 2:29 Act 4:24, &c., and probably
Rev 6:10; nor is there any necessity, but, Jud 1:4, the
word may be understood of God the Father. Or rather:
2. Christ.
if we understand it of God the Father, the sense
is, either:
1. Denying God that bought them, or acquired them and made them his,
viz. by calling them out of the darkness and gross wickedness of
the world, to the knowledge of Christ and the gospel, and the
fellowship of his church. In this general sense the word buying is
sometimes taken, Isa 55:1 Rev 3:18. Or:
2. Denying God that bought the people of Israel (whereof these false
teachers that should be among the Christian Jews were to be a part)
out of Egypt, to make them his peculiar people, whereof they would
boast themselves, and yet by their wicked practices deny that God
that bought them; the words seem to be taken out of Deu 32:6:
Is not he thy Father that hath bought thee? As likewise from
2Pe 2:5 of that chapter. Peter calls them spots, 2Pe 2:13
of this chapter.
But if we understand it of Christ, which seems most probable, the
sense is, either:
1. That Christ bought or redeemed them, (in which sense the word is
sometimes taken), in that by his death he purchased the continuance
of their lives, and the staying of their execution, and rescued
them from that present destruction which, without Christ’s
interposition, had seized on them, as it had likewise on the whole
visible creation immediately upon the apostacy of mankind. Or:
2. This is spoken not only of their pretences, that they should
profess themselves redeemed by Christ, but in the style of the
visible church, which should judge them to be so till they declared
the contrary by their wicked actions; and it likewise holds true in
a forensical or judicial style, according to which whosoever
professeth himself to be redeemed by Christ, and yet denies him in
his deeds, is said to deny the Lord that bought him; it being alike
as to the greatness of the crime, whether he be really redeemed,
or, professing himself to be so, denies his Redeemer.
shall hasten their
own destruction, it may be temporal in this world; to be sure, eternal
in the other. It may be called
as coming upon them
unawares, and when they think least of it, as 1Th 5:3.