ACC ~ 2 Peter 2 v21

BETTER NEVER TO HAVE KNOWN. HILARY OF ARLES: To know the way of righteousness is to know Christ and the holy gospel. Peter is talking here about people who have been baptized after professing faith in Jesus but who have then turned away from him. INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER.

MAKING DECEPTION WORSE. ANDREAS: Peter shows by this that these men were not liberating those who followed them from their deception but merely making that deception worse. CATENA.

LIKE A DOG RETURNING TO ITS OWN VOMIT. THEOPHYLACT: Peter is saying that the evil awaiting those who turn away from their faith is so great that it would have been better if they had never accepted it in the first place. At least that way their wickedness would seem natural, instead of being as bizarre as a dog returning to its own vomit. COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER.

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