| 1813 - 580 pages
...the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life. b 2 Pet. iii. 16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these...that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction Mat. xxii. 24. to Verse .11 Saying, Master, Moses... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 pages
...sometimes wrote and preached upon these high points to which St. Peter alludes in his second Epistle. "Even as our beloved brother Paul also, according...given unto him, hath written unto you. As also in his Epistles, speaking in them of these things: in which are some things hard to be understood, which... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1813 - 698 pages
...this question in the affirmative f St. Peter himstlf, speaking of the Epistles of St. Paul, said, " In which are some things hard to be understood, which...they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." Would St. Peter, if he had lived in the present... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 468 pages
...consideration, taken from what follows our text, ver. 15. 16. "Even as our beloved brother Paul also speaks of these things, in which are some things hard to...which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest unto their own destruction." What are these things hard to be understood? Many interpreters, ancient... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 416 pages
...them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not" " In which are some things hard to be understood, which...that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things... | |
| Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 606 pages
...Gentiles to live as do the Jews ?"* Peter acknowledges, that in the epistles of his colleague Paul, are some things hard to be understood, which they...and unstable, wrest, as they do other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. The difficulty must be ascribed to his abstruse mode of reasoning concerning... | |
| 1814 - 804 pages
...darken counsel ; for they wrested the counsel of God ; 2 Pet. iii. 16. In Paul's epistles, saith he, "are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Some things in the Scriptures are hard to be... | |
| Wills - 1813 - 266 pages
...In those epistles, as another great apostle observed, immediately after they were written; " there are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do also the other scriptures unto their own destruction." * And in these days it is too evident, that... | |
| 1849 - 748 pages
...Peter, referring to the writings of bis colleague, St. Paul, affirms, that they contain " some thing* hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also tlte other Scriptures, unto their men deitruction." But what of that? Did St. Peter, perceiving... | |
| John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...according to the wisdom given him, + 16 hath written to you : As also in all his epistles, speaking therein of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. 17... | |
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