2 Peter - Verse-by-Verse Biblical Exegesis

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deceit. The mataiotes opens the soul to demon doctrines that obscure the truth. Just as fornication stimulates the body, so the satanic doctrines of profligate teachers titillate the intellect. Those who are tempted by these depraved, deceptive renegades are said to “barely escape” from their first exposure to fallacious concepts. Subsequent rejection of doctrine pulls the rug out from under them, and their resultant volatile lifestyle is consistent with their rejection. The groundwork has been laid for their enslavement. (R.B. Thieme, Jr.) The false teachers can be characterized as spiritually empty of promise, lacking freedom, and headed for nether gloom because they speak haughty futility and entice new converts with promises of moral freedom, although they themselves are really only slaves of corruption. (D. Watson) Their words are meaningless because they lack every semblance of truth and integrity. Yet the false teachers use the words for their own purpose … They arouse the sexual desires in man that induce him to lust and sensual gratification, which signifies the indecent conduct and sexual excess that prevailed in Sodom and Gomorrah ... Like carnivorous animals that prey on the weakest members of a herd, so the false teachers focus their attention on recent converts. Believers who have not had sufficient time to grow in grace and understanding of the Christian faith now have to endure the enticements of apostates ... Who are “those who live in error?” They can hardly be the false teachers, for if this were true we would expect Peter to be more explicit. The wording is insufficiently clear to hold that these teachers are trying to recapture the new converts who had just escaped from their influence and power. (S. Kistemaker) They gather followers round them by means of their specious eloquence, and then entice them to destruction by wicked example ... Those who have that blessed knowledge escape from the pollutions of the world. Sensual pleasures have no hold upon those who realize the holy joy of communion with the Lord. But they must watch and pray, and keep themselves in the love of God ... Satan is ever on the watch with his insidious temptations, and sometimes, when all seems safe, the danger comes. (B. Caffin) They are those who have been impressed with Christian truth, and have had strength to separate themselves from their old surroundings and customs, but are led to return through the compromises suggested by the false teachers. (K. Wuest) False teachers frequently make for the newly converted, who are not yet rooted in orthodox Christian doctrine. (D. Wheaton) They are like modern “motivational” speakers parading themselves as experts who confidently offer quick and easy solutions to life’s problems or how-to-get-rich schemes ridden with flaws when it comes to reality. (W. Baker) Grandiose sophistry is the hook, filthy lust is the bait. (C. Bigg) This reminds me of “spiritual warfare” writers with their new theories on how to deal with sin and live the spiritual life. Their way of dealing with sin may be built around the theory that all sin is caused by demons, and that exorcising the demon of sexual lust will rid you of sexual addiction. Or take some “faith healers” who for a price will promise deliverance from some disease, and when you fail to be healed, tell you that your faith was not strong enough. The people who are targets for these false teachers are interestingly described as “those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,” a reference to new converts who have escaped from a godless, immoral lifestyle and are naively susceptible to impressive people whom they believe are true representatives of the Christian faith. (W. Baker) All through the epistle, the main body of stable Christians is in view, and now a smaller unstable group
comes on the scene without proper textual introduction … Peter is in the process of enumerating the sins of the heretics. One of these sins, he tells the main body and church as a whole, is that they entice the new converts. (G. Clark) No sooner did a new convert walk out the door [open air meeting] and past the crowd than a cultist would join him and start to introduce his own religion! All the apostates had to do was look for the people carrying follow-up material! This same procedure is often used in large evangelistic crusades: the false teachers are ready to pounce on new believers carrying decision packets ... Like newborn babies, new Christians need to be protected, fed, and established before they can be turned loose in this dangerous world. (W. Wiersbe) They used big, ponderous words in their discourses, but they are words which amount to nothing of significance. Ostentatious verbosity was their weapon to ensnare the unwary, and licentiousness was the bait on their hook. (M. Green) “Those who had truly escaped” suggests a strong degree of spiritual attainment on the part of the victims; “those who are just escaping” implies a small measure of Christian progress. (D. Hiebert) Paul was a brilliant man, but his ministry was simple and practical. He preached to express and not to impress. He knew the difference between communication and manipulation. (W. Wiersbe) 2 Peter 2:18 Indeed (inferential; to be sure), by arrogant (Noncompl. Acc.) speaking (fqe,ggomai, PMPtc.NMP, Iterative, Means, Deponent) from the source of emptiness (Abl. Source; mataiotes: vacuum, futility, purposelessness), by means of lusts (Instr. Means; cravings) of the flesh (Adv. Gen. Ref.), and (ellipsis) by depraved debauchery (Instr. Means), they (false teachers) lure (delea,zw, PAI3P, Progressive; entice) those (Acc. Dir. Obj.; young believers with a little doctrine) who barely (adv.; scarcely) escape from (avpofeu,gw, PAPtc.AMP, Inchoative, Substantival) those (Acc. Gen. Ref.; reversionistic believers engaging in pagan practices) who continually live (avnastre,fw, PPPtc.AMP, Durative, Substantival) in the sphere of error (Loc. Sph.; delusion, deception, Satan’s cosmic system, pattern of life based on lies). BGT 2 Peter 2:18 u`pe,rogka ga.r mataio,thtoj fqeggo,menoi delea,zousin evn evpiqumi,aij sarko.j avselgei,aij tou.j ovli,gwj avpofeu,gontaj tou.j evn pla,nh| avnastrefome,nouj( VUL 2 Peter 2:18 superba enim vanitatis loquentes pellicent in desideriis carnis luxuriae eos qui paululum effugiunt qui in errore conversantur LWB 2 Peter 2:19 While they [false teachers] promise them [their deluded followers] freedom [no discipline for their antinomian lifestyle], they themselves [the false teachers] are in a state of slavery characterized by spiritual ruin [advanced stages of reversionism], for anyone who has been defeated [succumbed to the cosmic system], by this same one [false teacher], he has been brought into slavery.
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2 Peter Benjamin W. Brodie April 20
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2 Peter 1:15 Indeed, I will also ma
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2 Peter 2:11 Whereas angels [in hea
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2 Peter 3:6 Through which the world
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among them a deliberate ignorance o
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e our defense - knowledge. Where is
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necessary to see the Lord with our
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LWB 2 Peter 1:2 Grace to you and pr
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stress on knowledge. The more we re
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can really know Him ... Greater kno
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“world system” because Satan ha
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Because we are in union with Christ
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trembling endeavors by the side of
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TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Peter contin
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which whosoever lives is counted de
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doctrine in daily life, the more th
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He who is not adding to his knowled
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very moment that Christ is received
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LWB 2 Peter 1:11 For in this manner
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2 Peter 1:11 For (explanatory) in t
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VUL 2 Peter 1:12 propter quod incip
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eality” that Peter could choose b
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continual application (poie,w, PMIn
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KJV 2 Peter 1:17 For he received fr
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