2 Peter 2:5

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3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction¹ does not slumber.

Doom of False Teachers

4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to¹ hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

6 and turning the cities of ^aSodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

7 and ^adelivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked

8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, ^atormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—

9 then ^athe Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

10 and especially ^athose who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. ^bThey are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of¹ dignitaries,

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Adam Clarke

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2 Peter 2:5

Spared not the old world - The apostle' s argument is this: If God spared not the rebellious angels, nor the sinful antediluvians, nor the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he will not spare those wicked teachers who corrupt the pure doctrines of Christianity.

Saved Noah the eighth - Some think that the words should be translated, Noah the eighth preacher of righteousness; but it seems most evident, from I Peter 3:20, that eight persons are here meant, which were the whole that were saved in the ark, viz. Shem, Ham, Japhet, and their three wives, six; Noah' s wife seven; and Noah himself the eighth. The form of expression, , Noah the eighth, i.e. Noah and seven more, is most common in the Greek language. So in Appian, Bell. Pun., p. 12, ͅ , sometimes he the third (i.e. he with two others) lay hid in a cave. Andocides, Orat. iv. p. 295: ̔ ͅ , he himself the tenth (i.e. he and nine others) were chosen to this. See a number of other examples in Kypke.

World of the ungodly - A whole race without God - without any pure worship or rational religion.

Other Adam Clarke entries containing 2 Peter 2:5:

Genesis 6:22
Matthew 23:35
James 3:6

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