--- title: "2 Peter 2 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read 2 Peter 2 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/2-peter/2" --- [ Read](/kjv/2-peter/2)[ Commentary](/study/2-peter/2)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/2-peter/2) Audio 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast *them* down to hell, and delivered *them* into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth *person*, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned *them* with an overthrow, making *them* an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed *his* righteous soul from day to day with *their* unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous *are they*, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, *as* they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots *they are* and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam *the son* of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling *words* of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, *through much* wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the 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 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. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known *it*, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog *is* turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. [2 Peter 1](/study/2-peter/1) [2 Peter 3](/study/2-peter/3) ## Commentary To verse 1 **But there were false prophets also:** the apostle having been exhorting them to continuance and progress in faith, admonishes them here of such as might labour to draw them from it; and having made mention of the Old Testament prophets, holy men of God, he hereby takes occasion to tell them of, and caution them against, false teachers which would be among themselves. This *also* in the text plainly relates to what went before: q.d. Together with those prophets which were sent by God, there were likewise false prophets, such as were not sent of him. **Among the people;**the people of Israel. **Even as there shall be false teachers;**teachers of false doctrine, [Matthew 7:15](/kjv/matthew/7/15); [Acts 20:29](/kjv/acts/20/29). **Among you;**among you Jewish, as well as among the Gentile Christians; or, among you as Christians and God’s people under the New Testament, in opposition to the people of God under the Old. **Who shall privily bring in:** the Greek word signifies either to bring in slily and craftily, under specious pretences, and without being observed, [Galatians 2:4](/kjv/galatians/2/4); [Jude 1:4](/kjv/jude/1/4); or, to bring in over and above, or beside the doctrine of the gospel, which they did not renounce; or both may be implied. **Damnable heresies;**Greek, heresies of destruction, i.e. destructive, such as lead to destruction, viz. eternal, or damnation. **Even denying;**either in their words or their practices, either directly, or by consequence of their doctrines or actions; they that profess they know God, but contradict that profession in their lives, are said to deny him, [Titus 1:16](/kjv/titus/1/16). **The Lord;**either: 1. God the Father, so called, [Luke 2:29](/kjv/luke/2/29); [Acts 4:24](/kjv/acts/4/24), &c., and probably [Revelation 6:10](/kjv/revelation/6/10); nor is there any necessity, but, [Jude 1:4](/kjv/jude/1/4), the word may be understood of God the Father. Or rather: 2. Christ. **That bought them:** if we understand it of God the Father, the sense is, either: 1. Denying God that bought them, or acquired them and made them his, viz. by calling them out of the darkness and gross wickedness of the world, to the knowledge of Christ and the gospel, and the fellowship of his church. In this general sense the word buying is sometimes taken, [Isaiah 55:1](/kjv/isaiah/55/1); [Revelation 3:18](/kjv/revelation/3/18). Or: 2. Denying God that bought the people of Israel (whereof these false teachers that should be among the Christian Jews were to be a part) out of Egypt, to make them his peculiar people, whereof they would boast themselves, and yet by their wicked practices deny that God that bought them; the words seem to be taken out of [Deuteronomy 32:6](/kjv/deuteronomy/32/6); *Is not he thy Father that hath bought thee?* As likewise from [2 Peter 2:5](/kjv/2-peter/2/5) of that chapter. Peter calls them *spots,*[2 Peter 2:13](/kjv/2-peter/2/13) of this chapter. But if we understand it of Christ, which seems most probable, the sense is, either: 1. That Christ bought or redeemed them, (in which sense the word is sometimes taken), in that by his death he purchased the continuance of their lives, and the staying of their execution, and rescued them from that present destruction which, without Christ’s interposition, had seized on them, as it had likewise on the whole visible creation immediately upon the apostacy of mankind. Or: 2. This is spoken not only of their pretences, that they should profess themselves redeemed by Christ, but in the style of the visible church, which should judge them to be so till they declared the contrary by their wicked actions; and it likewise holds true in a forensical or judicial style, according to which whosoever professeth himself to be redeemed by Christ, and yet denies him in his deeds, is said to deny the Lord that bought him; it being alike as to the greatness of the crime, whether he be really redeemed, or, professing himself to be so, denies his Redeemer. **And bring upon themselves swift destruction;**shall hasten their own destruction, it may be temporal in this world; to be sure, eternal in the other. 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