Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Peter 2:18 - 2:18

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Peter 2:18 - 2:18


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Great swelling words of vanity; i.e. big words, full of sound, and void of sense, at least of truth. He seems to tax the affected, vain speech of seducers, who were wont to clothe their erroneous doctrines (if not disguise the truths of God) with strange, uncouth phrases, which made a show of some rare discoveries, or deep mysteries, whereas indeed they were empty of any thing solid, or tending to edification.



They allure: as with a bait; a metaphor taken from the manner of taking fish.



Through the lusts of the flesh; to which they give liberty, as a bait to draw men after them.



Through much wantonness; this explains the former, and shows what lusts they indulge men in, viz. wantonness and uncleanness.



Those that were clean escaped; truly, or really, which seems the better reading than that in the margin: and this is said of them:



1. In respect of the profession they made of a real conversion.



2. In respect of the assent they gave to the word by which they were called.



3. In respect of the change that appeared in their outward conversation.



From them who live in error: whether the error of Judaism, or heathenism, wherein they had been formerly involved, and others still were. This might be the case of some in whom yet there was no saving change wrought; that they might be brought off from these more foul ways of sin and error in which they had walked and yet might afterward return to the same, or as bad, Mat_12:43 13:21.