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2Pe 2:22. Δὲ, but) You may wonder that they thus turn back: but there is little room for wonder; for they were before, and they still continue, dogs and swine.-παροιμίας, proverb) משׁלי, Septuagint, παροιμίαι Σολομῶντος, the Proverbs of Solomon, Pro 1:1; also Pro 26:11, ὥσπερ κύων ὅταν ἐπέλθῃ ἐπὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἔμετον, καὶ μισητὸς γένηται, κ.τ.λ., as a dog, when he returneth to his vomit, and becometh hateful, etc. Peter had frequently quoted the Proverbs of Solomon in his former Epistle, 1Pe 1:7, 1Pe 2:17, 1Pe 4:8; 1Pe 4:18, and now he quotes them also in the other. This may be added to the other arguments, which show that both the Epistles are the production of one and the same writer.-ἐξέραμα, vomit) Animals which live among men more easily contract the stomach [which takes place in the act of vomiting] than those which are wild. It is a word which is rarely met with; and Gataker notices some traces of Iambic verse,-
Κύων ἐτιστρέψας ἐπʼ ἴδιον ἐξέραμʼ,
Ὗς θʼ ἡ λουσαμένη εἰς χύλισμα βορβόρου.
Who would not loathe the vomit of sin?