 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them...  The Primitive Church Magazine - Pàgina 2371851Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pàgines
...had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, are again entangled therein and overcome; the latter...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. (r) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in hiin ;... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 462 pàgines
...therein .and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the jbegipiting," 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " For it had been better for them, not to have known...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." That the " knowledge of the way of righteousness," which they had attained, was... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pàgines
...language holds them forth as "persons who once believed in o Christ, and even conformed to his gospel. " It had been better for them not to have known the...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But ife hath happened to them, according to the true proverb, The dog returns... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1812 - 630 pàgines
...mine, I will recompence, saith the Lord'. It had been better for them, as St. Paul expresses it, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them ; 2 Pet. ii. 21. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute... | |
 | John Owen - 1813 - 644 pàgines
...punishment at the last day. So the apostle determines this matter, " It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them," 2 Peter ii. 21. Again, This unbelief in rejecting the gospel, is either notional... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1812 - 226 pàgines
...he does of me, that " he can take either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Sermons, p. 66. suy, he appears to me to feel the force of some truths -which... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 pàgines
...Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than, /after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them, ver. 21. In the third and laft chapter he confiders the fcoffers, and their irreligious... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 pàgines
...but liereafter they will be painfully convinced of the truth of the warning of the Apostle, that " it had been better for them not to have known the...have known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment, delivered unto them'." Surely, my beloved brethren, it were more prudent to suffer ourselves to be... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pàgines
...is worse with them than the beginning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Ver. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 pàgines
...greater aid and more resistance. Hear St. Peter, // had been better for them not to have known Uie way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment, 2 Epist. ii. 21. The case of those who commit the unpardonable sin, attests the same. Hear these thundering... | |
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