 | Juvenal - 1825 - 234 pages
...ipsi (dum Sana mente sum) damnant et improbant. — How striking that comparison of scripture ! — " It is happened unto them according to the true proverb:...that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire." 2. Pet. ii. 22. — Nam quis, fyc.] May we not learn a moral lesson from those lines of the poet? Facilis... | |
 | John Evans - Christian life - 1825 - 568 pages
...we draw back, rt i» " unto perdition," ver. 39. — 2 Pet. iu 20, 21. " If, after men have esc.iped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge...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... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...corruption that is in the world through lust, 2 Pet. i. 4. For if after they have escaped the pollution» of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning, ii. ÏO. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the... | |
 | John Scott - Sermons, English - 1826 - 608 pages
...guilty and criminal condition than ever. For thus St. Peter determines in the case, 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... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 854 pages
...is not the God of the dead, but of the living;' and that ' if after they have escaped the pollution of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning.' Leaving these lukewarm, formal, Laodicean professors to the mercy of God, I subscribe myself, Sir,... | |
 | Russel Canfield - Universalism - 1827 - 268 pages
...still be urged, how could the want of this new birth have tended to the good of Judas ? Ans. " For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...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,... | |
 | 1827 - 524 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...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... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...him: but the just shall live by his faith. * See on ROM. i. 17. h Ver. 26. 2 PET. ii. 20, 21 : 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... | |
 | Noah Levings - Theology, Doctrinal - 1827 - 248 pages
...had not been purged from his old sins ; yet this character is said, to be blind, &c. Again — '< For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...therein, and overcome, the latter end, is worse with them tlum the beginning." " For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pages
...themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame." " If after they have escaped the pollution of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...the 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... | |
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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. 
