Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 2 Peter 2:3 - 2:3

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | Download

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 2 Peter 2:3 - 2:3


(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

3. καὶ ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ κ.τ.λ. A distinguishing mark of the false teachers was that they sought to make money: not merely to be supported by their hearers, which, as we see from St Paul’s letters, was not considered wrong. ἐμπορεύεσθαι is usually to traffic in something: not quite so here: “you” are the source of profit to them.

πλαστοῖς usually “fictitious,” as of a false accusation: here probably the thought is not so much of the falsity of the teaching, as of insinuating address: what St Paul in 1Th 2:5 calls λόγος κολακείας. He mentions πρόφασις πλεονεξίας in the same place.

ἔκπαλαι again in 2Pe 3:5.