 | 1827 - 512 էջ
...they 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...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb; The dog is turned to his own vomit again... | |
 | 1827 - 676 էջ
...stations to wells and lakes. Another passage, which is rather langhable, though painful, 2 Pet. ii. 21. " For it had been better for them not to have...known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them ;" they add, " by the priest," and say that this passage is only applicable :o the turncoats.... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 էջ
...they 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...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered nnto them. unto perdition ; but of them that ' believe to the saving of the soul. CHAP. XL 1 What faith... | |
 | 1828 - 828 էջ
...overcome, the latter end is worse with them 'han the beginning. 21 Forit had been bctterfortheffl not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they...according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to hisown vomit aga|Bi and, The sow that was washed, Ш her wallowing in the mire, • CHAP. m. Of Christ's... | |
 | 1828 - 558 էջ
...2, " I praise you, that you keep the ordinances, as! leathern with you 4jr tradition." 2 Peter ii. 21, " For it had been better for them not to have...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them by tradition.- It seems from this, that it is more dangerous to depart from tradition, than from Scripture... | |
 | John Townsend - 1828 - 318 էջ
...world." The apostle Peter declares, that the latter end of such is worse than the beginning, — " For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." 2 Peter ii. 21. Such warnings should" stimulate us to a rigid observance of closet, family, and public... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1828 - 542 էջ
...they 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...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them '." So that a relapse, after a state of grace, into a state of sin, into confirmed habits, is to us... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1828 - 424 էջ
...they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them tiha,n the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it i» happened unto them according to the true proverb: The dog is turned to his own vomit again... | |
 | Jacobus Arminius - 1828 - 778 էջ
...me nothing/' (1 Cor. xiii, 2.) " Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.T> (1 Cor. viii, 1.) " For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." (2 Peter ii, 21.) SECONDLY. — Neither can this affirmation be truly made in every case, — " No... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1829 - 444 էջ
...therein, .ind overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the heginnin D 21 For it had heen hetter for them not to have known the way of righteousness,...But it is happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in... | |
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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... 
