 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813
...resistance. Hear St. Peter, // had been better for them not to have known Uie way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment, 2 Epist. ii. 21. The case of those who commit the unpardonable sin, attests the same. Hear these thundering... | |
 | Ethan Smith - 1814 - 588 pages
...them, than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of 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 proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again:... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 pages
...state of salvation. " Better would it have been for such not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." (2 Peter ii. 2l.) Perhaps I may not be deemed intrusive, if I suggest a preventive of the danger I... | |
 | John Mannock - 1815 - 352 pages
...Heb. x. 26. and St. Peter, It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment which was given them. 2. Peter, ii. 21. King Pharoah sinned grievously herein, when so often admonished... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 294 pages
...beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known tiie way of righteousness, than, afrer th*y have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Blessed is the man that endure'h temptation : for when he is tried, he ihail receive the crown of life... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - 1816 - 486 pages
...them than the beginning : For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, — the dog is turned to his own... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1816 - 346 pages
...been better for them (says St. Peter of such characters) not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delir vered unto them."* And St. Jude declares of such, that to them is " reserved the » 3 Pet. ii.... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 630 pages
...them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them (d)" St. Paul tells the Romans and Galatians, that they have been justified ; and as a means to obtain... | |
 | John Kenrick - 1817 - 644 pages
...Por it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, (the doctrine of Christ,) than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1817
...to their own damnation. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them. The devil is the tempter. His strength and practice is not always by force of arms,... | |
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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. For it had been better for them... 
