3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,



Ver. 3. Scoffers] Those worst kind of sinners, Psa_1:1; those abjects of the people, Psa_35:15; those pests ( ëïéìïò ), as the Septuagint render them, LXXE Psa_1:1; those atheists that jeer when they should fear, and put far away the evil day, that make no more matter of God’s direful and dreadful menaces than Leviathan doth of a sword; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear, Job_41:29. They make children’s play of them, as the word here used importeth, åìðáéêôáé .