2 Peter 2:22

2 Peter 2:22

20 For if, after they ^ahave escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are ^bagain entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

21 For ^ait would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: ^a“A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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But—You need not wonder at the event; for dogs and swine they were before, and dogs and swine they will continue. They "scarcely" (II Peter 2:18) have escaped from their filthy folly, when they again are entangled in it. Then they seduce others who have in like manner "for a little time escaped from them that live in error" (II Peter 2:18). Peter often quoted Proverbs in his First Epistle (I Peter 1:7; I Peter 2:17; I Peter 4:8, I Peter 4:18); another proof that both Epistles come from the same writer.

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