Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 2 Peter 2:22 - 2:22

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 2 Peter 2:22 - 2:22


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22. τὸ τῆς ἀληθοῦς παροιμίας: a usual phrase for introducing a proverb, as Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead, viii. 1, τοῦτʼ ἐκεῖνο τὸ τῆς παροιμίας.

Κύων etc. The equivalent is in Pro 26:11, the LXX. has ἔμετον for ἐξέραμα which is a very unusual word.

Ὗς λουσαμένη “after a wash.” In the ancient History of Ahikar (ed. Rendel Harris 1898) which the writer may well have known, there is a proverb of the pig that went to the bath, and on coming out saw some mud and rolled in it.

There may be a second thought in the writer’s mind of the latter end of these men in the βόρβορος of Hell: which figures in the Apocalypse of Peter, as it did also in the Orphic mysteries.