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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Peter 2:14 - 2:14
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full of adultery - literally, “full of an adulteress,” as though they carried about adulteresses always dwelling in their eyes: the eye being the avenue of lust [Horneius]. Bengel makes the adulteress who fills their eyes, to be “alluring desire.”
that cannot cease - “that cannot be made to cease from sin.”
beguiling - “laying baits for.”
unstable - not firmly established in faith and piety.
heart - not only the eyes, which are the channel, but the heart, the fountain head of lust. Job 31:7, “Mine heart walked after mine eyes.”
covetous practices - The oldest manuscripts read singular, “covetousness.”
cursed children - rather as Greek, “children of curse,” that is, devoted to the curse. Cursing and covetousness, as in Balaam’s case, often go together: the curse he designed for Israel fell on Israel’s foes and on himself. True believers bless, and curse not, and so are blessed.