 | John Owen - 1825 - 334 pages
...servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." The Holy Ghost compares sinners, because of the odious, fierce, poisonous nature of this indwelling... | |
 | John Owen - 1825 - 338 pages
...servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." The Holy Ghost compares sinners, because of the odious, fierce, poisonous nature of this indwelling... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pages
...servants of corruption ; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the . world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...adversaries." If we draw back, it is " unto perdition," ver. 39. — 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " If, after men have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Fur it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...corruption that is in the world through lust, 2 Pet. i. 4. For if after they have escaped the pollution» of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning, ii. ÏO. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...among them. The apostle, speaking of apostates, represents them as acting according to their nature. " It had been better for them not to have known the...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 vomit again ;... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 528 pages
...are again entangltd therein usd overcome, the latter end is teorse with them than the beginning. Fur it had been better for them not to have known the...known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unlo them. But it has happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog is turned to hit own... | |
 | James Ross - 1825 - 472 pages
...looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation which shall consume the adversaries. — It would have been better for them not to have known the way of...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. — If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded... | |
 | John Scott - 1826 - 608 pages
...and criminal condition than ever. For thus St. Peter determines in the case, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment: that is, by relapsing into those sinful pollutions out of which they had been rescued by the belief... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 854 pages
...is not the God of the dead, but of the living;' and that ' if after they have escaped the pollution of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning.' Leaving these lukewarm, formal, Laodicean professors to the mercy of God, I subscribe myself, Sir,... | |
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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... 
