| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 էջ
...not forget thy commandments," Psalm cxix. 1?6. In answer to this, I thought I heard a voice saying, " For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them,"... | |
| John Newton - 1811 - 690 էջ
...near unto death, to restore them to their right minds, and to recover them to himself. Otherwise, " it had been better for them not " to have known the way of righteousness, than alter " they have known it, to turn from the holy command" ment delivered unto... | |
| Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 էջ
...that their own judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would have been better for them not to have known the way of...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... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 էջ
...the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, are again entangled therein and overcome; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
| Thomas Sherlock - 1812 - 478 էջ
...that their own judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than, after they have known itt to turn from the holy. commandment delivered to them, ver. 21. In the third and laft chapter he... | |
| rev. Christopher Brown - 1812 - 508 էջ
...begin, ning. O. Is it good for them to have known GOD, and the means of falvation ? A. It is not : It had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than to turn from ir, ver. 21. O. By what doth he fitly exprefs them ? A.^By the dog returning to eat what... | |
| John Wesley - 1812 - 462 էջ
...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 the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."... | |
| John Jones - 1812 - 1054 էջ
...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 way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
| Martin Luther - 2003 - 372 էջ
...condemns those who despise it and declares, "He that despiseth you despiscth me,"67 and Peter says, "It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness."68 Inasmuch as the two excellent men, Mr. Jobst [Menius] and Mr. Frederick [Myconius],... | |
| Ben Lunis - 2003 - 590 էջ
...than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. (II Peter 2:20, 21) The role of evangelist Background Dowgiewicz notes that it is... | |
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