 | Lorenzo Dow - 1814 - 666 Seiten
...world, through the knowledge of Christ, &c. — and yet are again entangled therein. And saith he, it had been better for them not to have known the...of righteousness, than after they have known it, to tarn from, &c.. ('4 Pet. i. 9. and ii. 20. to the end,) how could they have forgot that which they... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 Seiten
...Christian character, and alone evidences a state of salvation. " Better would it have been for such not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." (2 Peter ii. 2l.) Perhaps I may not be deemed intrusive, if I suggest a preventive of the danger I... | |
 | Nathan Bangs - 1815 - 336 Seiten
...21. " 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...have known the way of righteousness, than after they had known.it, to turn irom the holy commandment delivered unto them." On this text it is proper to... | |
 | John Mannock - 1815 - 352 Seiten
...more sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrible expectation of judgment. Heb. x. 26. and St. Peter, It had been better for them not to have known the...they have known it to turn from the holy commandment which was given them. 2. Peter, ii. 21. King Pharoah sinned grievously herein, when so often admonished... | |
 | 1815 - 294 Seiten
...thfc world through the knowledge of the Lord aw! Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again C!itIin'iliid therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with...For it had been better for them not to have known tiie way of righteousness, than, afrer th*y have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - 1816 - 488 Seiten
...error: 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...known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, — the dog is turned to his own... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1816 - 344 Seiten
...receive a greater damnation. " It had been better for them (says St. Peter of such characters) not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delir vered unto them."* And St. Jude declares of such, that to them is " reserved the » 3 Pet. ii.... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 644 Seiten
...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...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them (d).n St. Paul tells the Romans and Galatians, that they have been justified ; and as a means to obtain... | |
 | 1817 - 370 Seiten
...through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (the only possible way of escaping them) they are again entangled therein and overcome ; the...have known the way of righteousness, than after they had known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.' 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. That the 'knowledge... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1817 - 806 Seiten
...them. For then had his labour been in vain, and they had received the word to their own damnation. For it had been better for them not to have known...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them. The devil is the tempter. His strength and practice is not always by force of arms,... | |
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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... 
