2 Peter - Verse-by-Verse Biblical Exegesis

prematurely for the sake of the Body of believers whose spiritual life they endangered.
(A. Custance) Such heresies are “destructive,” for they lead people away from Christ and
thus to spiritual ruin. (K. Gangel) These are the prophets who cry, “Peace, Peace,” when
God is really going to bring judgment. (W. Nicole) People will fall for anything, and if
you do not believe that, you ought to see the elaborate operations and headquarters of
some of the cults which are located here in Southern California. You would be amazed,
for it reveals that there are a great many people who have not heeded Peter’s warning that
false teachers are abroad. Instead, they listen to them and give them financial backing.
We oddballs down here can really be taken in. (J. McGee) Both agorazo and exagorazo
mean the marketplace or place of business, meaning “to buy out of the marketplace,” so
that the one who has been purchased might never return there again. (J. Boice)
Those who openly repudiate Christ have clearly placed themselves outside the believing
community. But those who say, “Yes, I believe,” yet live out the opposite are the real
deniers. (R. Mounce) They are disobedient, renegade slaves who do not obey their
Master’s instructions and, therefore, shame Him. By following the false teacher’s denial
of the Master and of final judgment, some persons in the church have backslidden into
the accompanying behavior of licentiousness and shameful ways of pagan immorality.
(D. Watson) 2 Peter does not deny that the false teachers are Christians, but sees them as
apostate Christians who have disowned their Master. They disown their Master, who by
His death bought them as His slaves; they flout His moral authority, and they are
bringing on themselves imminent destruction at the Parousia, for all that they scoff at its
late arrival ... Instead of witnessing to their neighbors, they were bringing discredit on the
Christian way of life. (R. Bauckham) The destructive heresies are the intrusion of
unorthodox opinions which lead to the ruin of spiritual life, the doom of the people
involved, and the loss of all that is eternally worthwhile. (N. Hillyer)
2 Peter 2:1 But (adversative) there came into existence
(gi,nomai, AMI3P, Ingressive, Deponent; at various times
throughout history) false prophets (Pred. Nom.; those who
pretend to be legitimate communicators of the original canon
of Scripture) among the people (Dat. Assoc.), even
(ascensive) as (comparative) there will be (eivmi, FMI3P,
Predictive; in your time) false teachers (Pred. Nom.; those
who contradict and twist the existing canon of Scripture)
among you (Dat. Assoc.), who will be of such a character as
(Nom. Appos.; sweetness and life) to introduce secretly and
maliciously (pareisa,gw, FAI3P, Predictive; bring in alongside
of true doctrine) destructive (Descr. Gen.; harmful to
individuals and society) heresies (Acc. Dir. Obj.), even
(ascensive) repeatedly repudiating (avrne,omai, PMPtc.NMP,
Iterative, Modal, Deponent; disowning, denying, rejecting
absolutes and talking in grey areas of the relative) the
sovereign Lord (Acc. Dir. Obj.; Jesus Christ) Who bought
them (Acc. Adv.; reversionistic believers) out of the slave
market of sin (avgora,zw, AAPtc.AMS, Dramatic, Substantival;
definite atonement, particular redemption), bringing upon