 | Thomas Whittemore - 1832 - 390 pages
...cure than the first attack. The same rule holds good, in regard to moral things. Peter says, " for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." The occasion of Jesus using the parable before us was this, — he had just cured a man of blindness... | |
 | John Davenant, Josiah Allport - 1832 - 612 pages
...of these in 2 Pel. ii. 19, 20 : Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 2. There is no cause why a Christian should despond, because he perceives in himself the rebellious... | |
 | American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 pages
...covenant." This passage, therefore, is altogether irrelevant. 9. We are referred to 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. «' If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | Richard Hele - 1832 - 402 pages
...might receive the promise s . But if any man draw back My soul shall have no pleasure in him 6 . For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning: for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | Edward Burton - 1832 - 480 pages
...truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins. It agrees also with the declaration of the text, If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse mth them than the beginning. It is worse, because the free pardon which God offered to all has already... | |
 | Lucius Robinson Paige - 1833 - 336 pages
...they become stronger and more inveterate than before. Peter has expressed the same sentiment : " for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning," 2 Pet. ii. 20.' Expos, in loc. It will be observed that Beausobre and Lenfant speak of the entire ruin... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1833 - 304 pages
...the servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 604 pages
...you to the possession of them."] MMCCCCXXV. APOSTATES IN A WORSE STATE THAN EVER. 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
 | 1833 - 548 pages
...righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true...that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire " (2 Peter ii. 21, 22). The women, I say, with whom these virgins have not defiled themselves, are the harlot... | |
 | 1833 - 866 pages
...among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them. . . . If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning. (2 Pet. ii.) The unbelievers before the flood were altogether a lawless and sensual... | |
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For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 
