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2. ἀρνούμενοι. They deny by their lives that Christ is their Master, and also in some cases by their teaching: for many who had grown up in the strong Monotheism of the Jews and had accepted Christianity to some extent, denied the divinity of Christ. In 1Jn 2:22 we read of some who denied that Jesus was Christ.
ἐξακολουθήσουσιν as 2Pe 1:16.
διʼ οὓς ἡ ὁδὸς τῆς ἀληθείας βλασφημηθήσεται. This thought, of bringing discredit on the Christian name, is not uncommon in N.T.: Rom 2:23 to Rom 4:25; Rom 3:8, Tit 2:5, Jam 2:7 : cf. Act 19:9. We know that, as a matter of fact, the most ghastly stories of the excesses of the Christians were current in Roman society. Though the greater part of these tales were due to the fact that Christians met secretly for worship, it is possible that the proceedings of the teachers described here may have supplied some material that was not fictitious.
There is a coincidence of language here with the Apocalypse of Peter, § 7, οἱ βλασφημοῦντες τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης (see below, 2Pe 2:21), and also, as noted on p. xviii, with the Apology of Aristides.
The “way of truth” is a phrase due to Psa 119:30.