Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(Judges 1:12-13.)
wells—"clouds" in Jude; both promising (compare II Peter 2:19) water, but yielding none; so their "great swelling words" are found on trial to be but "vanity" (II Peter 2:18).
clouds—The oldest manuscripts and versions read, "mists," dark, and not transparent and bright as "clouds" often are, whence the latter term is applied sometimes to the saints; fit emblem of the children of darkness. "Clouds" is a transcriber's correction from Judges 1:12, where it is appropriate, "clouds . . . without water" (promising what they do not perform); but not here, "mists driven along by a tempest."
mist—blackness; "the chilling horror accompanying darkness" [BENGEL].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Peter 2:17:
Song of Solomon 4:12
2 Peter 2:1
Jude 1:12
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