 | James Ussher - 1660 - Počet stránok 628
...worse than the beginning." Here is that apostacy, and here is the subject of the temporary faith. " It had been better for them not to have known the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them ;" this was a temporary conversion, as " Ephraim1, like a broken bow, turned back in the day of battle."... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - Počet stránok 498
...to turn his back upon it. So St. Peter tells us, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 2i. " For if after they have efcaped the pollutions " of the world, through the knowledge...entangled therein and overcome ; the latter " end is worfe with them than the beginning ; for " it had been better for them not to have known " the way... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1775 - Počet stránok 500
...Seek ye poverty of fpirit, and the holinefs defcribed in the fermon on the mount.] Mat. vi, 33. — It had been better for them not to have known THE...turn from the HOLY COMMANDMENT delivered unto them. 2 Pet. ii. zi. — By faith Noah moved with fear PREPARED AN ARK &c, [ie obeyed] by the which he, &c.... | |
 | Andronicus - 1790 - Počet stránok 350
...\yith'indelible Reproach, The Condemnation of fuch is terrible indeed : for if after, they have ejcaped the Pollutions of the. World, through the Knowledge...entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter End is worfe with them than the Beginning : for it had been better for them not to have known the Way of Rightepufnefs,... | |
 | 1796 - Počet stránok 612
...of grace ?" Ch. x. 26, 27, 28, 29. "Peter also describes the same characters : " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...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 own vomit again;... | |
 | 1807 - Počet stránok 672
...they have escaped the pollutions oT the world thro" the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour JesusChrist, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the...been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, aficr they have kuo\vn it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - Počet stránok 408
...that we have committed, we shall " die." St. Peter is very express on this head: — " If, after they have escaped the " pollutions of the world through...latter end is " worse with them than the beginning." We must, therefore, continue our exertions to the end of our course, we must fight the good fight to... | |
 | 1802 - Počet stránok 374
...corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if, afterthey have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end_ is worse with them than the beginning. 2 1 For it had been better for them not to have known the... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - Počet stránok 314
...their own " judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation slumber, " ver. 3. — that it would have been better for them, not- to " have known the way...known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to '' them. ver. 21. In the third and last chapter, he considers " the scoffers, and their irreligious... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - Počet stránok 454
...truth. 2. There must be continuance in well-doing. It rs said, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21, 22, " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...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 own vomit again... | |
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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... 
