Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(Judges 1:19).
But—In contrast to the "angels," II Peter 2:11.
brute—Greek, "irrational." In contrast to angels that "excel in strength."
beasts—Greek, "animals" (compare Psalms 49:20).
natural—transposed in the oldest manuscripts, "born natural," that is, born naturally so: being in their very nature (that is, naturally) as such (irrational animals), born to be taken and destroyed (Greek, "unto capture and destruction," or corruption, see on Galatians 6:8; compare end of this verse, "shall perish," literally, "shall be corrupted," in their own corruption. Judges 1:10, naturally . . . corrupt themselves," and so destroy themselves; for one and the same Greek word expresses corruption, the seed, and destruction, the developed fruit).
speak evil of—Greek, "in the case of things which they understand not." Compare the same presumption, the parent of subsequent Gnostic error, producing an opposite, though kindred, error, the worshipping of good angels": Colossians 2:18, "intruding into those things which he hath not seen."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Peter 2:12:
Galatians 6:8
2 Peter 2:1
2 Peter 2:19
Jude 1:10
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