 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 trang
...greater aid and more 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... | |
 | 1813 - 432 trang
...them than the heginning. For it had heen hetter for them not to have known the way of righteousuess, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." — You must lay your accounts with some such characters from amongst you, "men of corrupt... | |
 | Elihu Thayer - 1813 - 390 trang
...says of apostatizing Christians may justly be affirmed of all such, even that they had " better not have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to {urn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. ' ' It may be further observed under this head,... | |
 | Ethan Smith - 1814 - 598 trang
...entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them, than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of...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... | |
 | 1814 - 570 trang
...entangled therein, and overeome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 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'command-, ment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them aeeording to the true proverb,... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow - 1814 - 666 trang
...through the knowledge of Christ, &c. — and yet are again entangled therein. And saith he, it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to tarn from, &c.. ('4 Pet. i. 9. and ii. 20. to the end,) how could they have forgot that which they... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 trang
...Christian character, and alone evidences a 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 trang
...sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrible expectation of judgment. Heb. x. 26. and St. Peter, It had been better for them not to have known the way of...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... | |
 | Nathan Bangs - 1815 - 336 trang
...again entangled therein and overcome ; 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 had known.it, to turn irom the holy commandment delivered unto them." On this text it is proper to... | |
 | 1815 - 608 trang
...again entangled therein, and overcome, their latter end is worse than the beginning. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, to turn from the holy command delivered to them. 22. But it is happened unto them... | |
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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... 
