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2Pe 2:2. Πολλοὶ, many) How sad!-ἀσελγείαις) Others read ἀπωλείαις;[5] but ἈΣΈΛΓΕΙΑΙ is read in Peter and other places in the plural, whereas ἈΠΏΛΕΙΑΙ is not: and wantonness is that bait which draws many to follow them; Jud 1:4. That following is succeeded at length by destruction: whereas wantonness, not perdition, so meets the gaze [at once], that men are led to speak evil of the way of truth: and this also is the crime, by which the punishment mentioned in 2Pe 2:6 is incurred. In such a variation of readings it is easy to bring forward arguments for either of the two: but it is unnecessary to do so, since the decision ought to be made on the authority of manuscripts. See App. Crit., edit, ii., on this passage.-διʼ οὓς, on account of whom) It refers to of them.-ἡ ὁδὸς, the way) 2Pe 2:15; 2Pe 2:21. Gen 24:48, דרך אמת, ἘΝ ὉΔῷ ἈΛΗΘΕΊΑς (Septuagint), in the way of truth.-βλασφημηθήσεται, shall be evil spoken of) by those who are without, and know not how to distinguish between true and false Christians.
[5] ABC Vulg. read ἀσελγείαις. Rec. Text has ἀπωλείαις, without any very old authority.-E.