Who concerning the truth have erred
That is, the two persons just mentioned; they fell from the
truth, wandered and departed from it; they did not keep to the
Scriptures of truth, but deviated from them; they missed that
mark, and went astray into gross errors and mistakes; rejected
the Gospel, the word of truth, in general, and particularly in
saying, that the resurrection is past already;
and no other is to be expected; or that there was no future
resurrection of the dead: their error was, as some think, that
there is no other resurrection than that of parents in their
children, who, though they die, live in their posterity; or than
the resurrection of Christ, and of the saints, that rose at the
same time; or rather, that there is no other resurrection than
the spiritual one, or regeneration, which is a quickening of dead
sinners, or the resurrection of them from the death of sin, to a
life of grace; which seems to be the truest account of their
principle, seeing this is what has been received and propagated
by others since; though some have thought that they gave into the
Palingenesia of the Pythagoreans, who supposed that when men die,
their souls go into other bodies; and that these men imagined,
that this is all the resurrection that will be: and others have
been of opinion, that their notion was, that whereas the
deliverance of the Jews out of the Babylonish captivity is
signified by a resurrection of them, in ( Ezekiel
37:1-28 ) that this is the resurrection they meant was past,
and no other to be looked for; but that which has been fixed upon
seems to be the truest account:
and overthrow the faith of some;
the Ethiopic version reads, "of many"; that is, of nominal
professors of religion; not of true believers, for true faith
cannot be overthrown. Hence it follows,