Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(II Peter 2:12.)
those things which—Greek, "all things whatsoever they understand not," namely, the things of the spiritual world.
but what . . . naturally—Connect thus, "Whatever (so the Greek) things naturally (by natural, blind instinct), as the unreasoning (so the Greek) animals, they know," etc. The Greek for the former "know" implies deeper knowledge; the latter "know," the mere perception of the "animal senses and faculties."
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