2 Pedro 2:18

18 Pronunciando discursos arrogantes y sin sentido, seducen con los instintos naturales desenfrenados a quienes apenas comienzan a apartarse de los que viven en el error.

2 Pedro 2:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity
Marvellous things against the God of gods, great things and blasphemies against God, his name, his tabernacle, and his saints; see ( Daniel 11:36 ) ( Revelation 13:5 Revelation 13:6 ) ; or against men, dominions, and dignities, ( 2 Peter 2:10 ) ; or it may design their self-applauses and vain glorying in themselves, and their empty boast of knowledge and learning; and also express the windiness of their doctrines, and the bombast style, and high flown strains of rhetoric in which they were delivered; as likewise the flattering titles they bestowed on men for the sake of their own worldly interest and advantage; see ( Jude 1:16 ) and hereby

they allure, through the lusts of the flesh, [through much]
wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error:
that is, from those who lived in the error of Heathenism or Judaism, from whom, and which, they were clean escaped; or truly, really, and entirely delivered, being fully convinced of the falsity thereof, and of the truth of the Christian religion; though some copies, as the Alexandrian, and two of Beza's, and two of Stephens's, read, not (ontwv) , "truly", but (oligwv) , "a little"; and the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "a very little"; to which agrees the Complutensian edition; and the Syriac version renders it "in a few words", or "almost"; and according to the Ethiopic version, "a few persons" are designed; but be they more or less, and truly, or but a little, and for a little while, or almost, escaped from their former errors, in which they were brought up, and lived; yet by the carnal lusts and liberties, lasciviousness and wantonness, which these false teachers indulged, they were allured, ensnared, and drawn by them into their wicked principles and practices.

2 Pedro 2:18 In-Context

16 Pero fue reprendido por su maldad: su burra —una muda bestia de carga— habló con voz humana y refrenó la locura del profeta.
17 Estos individuos son fuentes sin agua, niebla empujada por la tormenta, para quienes está reservada la más densa oscuridad.
18 Pronunciando discursos arrogantes y sin sentido, seducen con los instintos naturales desenfrenados a quienes apenas comienzan a apartarse de los que viven en el error.
19 Les prometen libertad, cuando ellos mismos son esclavos de la corrupción, ya que cada uno es esclavo de aquello que lo ha dominado.
20 Si habiendo escapado de la contaminación del mundo por haber conocido a nuestro Señor y Salvador Jesucristo, vuelven a enredarse en ella y son vencidos, terminan en peores condiciones que al principio.
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