2 Peter 2:13 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Peter 2:13

11 whereas ^aangels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

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12 But these, ^alike natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,

13 ^aand will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure ^bto carouse in the daytime. ^cThey are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while ^dthey feast with you,

14 having eyes full of¹ adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. ^aThey have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.

15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of ^aBalaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

17 ^aThese are wells without water,¹ clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness² forever.

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2 Peter 2:13

receive—"shall carry off as their due."

reward of—that is, for their "unrighteousness" [ALFORD]. Perhaps it is implied, unrighteousness shall be its own reward or punishment. "Wages of unrighteousness" (II Peter 2:15) has a different sense, namely, the earthly gain to be gotten by "unrighteousness."

in the daytime—Translate as Greek, "counting the luxury which is in the daytime (not restricted to night, as ordinary revelling. Or as Vulgate and CALVIN, "the luxury which is but for a day": so Hebrews 11:25, "the pleasures of sin for a season"; and Hebrews 12:16, Esau) to be pleasure," that is, to be their chief good and highest enjoyment.

Spots—in themselves.

blemishes—disgraces: bringing blame (so the Greek) on the Church and on Christianity itself.

sporting themselves—Greek, "luxuriating."

with—Greek, "in."

deceivings—or else passively, "deceits": luxuries gotten by deceit. Compare Matthew 13:22, "Deceitfulness of riches"; Ephesians 4:22, "Deceitful lusts." While deceiving others, they are deceived themselves. Compare with English Version, Philippians 3:19, "Whose glory is in their shame." "Their own" stands in opposition to "you": "While partaking of the love-feast (compare Judges 1:12) with you," they are at the same time "luxuriating in their own deceivings," or "deceits" (to which latter clause answers Judges 1:12, end: Peter presents the positive side, "they luxuriate in their own deceivings"; Jude, the negative, "feeding themselves without fear"). But several of the oldest manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac, and Sahidic Versions read (as Jude), "In their own love-feasts": "their own" will then imply that they pervert the love-feasts so as to make them subserve their own self-indulgent purposes.

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