ACC ~ 2 Peter 2 v12

DESTROYED IN THE SAME DESTRUCTION. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: The inspired psalmist said this when he sang: “Man, when honored, had no understanding. He is like the beasts that perish.” Although human beings had laws, their morals were irrational, and they soon degenerated into animals whose only end was destruction. CATENA.

THE CORRUPT APPETITES OF THE HERETICS. BEDE: Just as it is natural for dumb animals to be led into a trap in their search for food, so the heretics, like such animals, have spurned the pure and holy doctrine of the whole church in order to satisfy their corrupt appetites. Church history tells us that there were many such groups in apostolic times, like the Simonians, the Menandrians, the Basilidians, the Nicolaitans, the Ebionites, the Marcionites, the Cerdonians, and so on. ON 2 PETER.

CREATURES OF INSTINCT. OECUMENIUS: These men are compared to animals because they live only by their bodily instincts and not with their mind or rational soul. For this reason they are easily ensnared by corruption and are so far gone in depravity that they do not even know when they are being cursed. COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER.

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