| John Abernethy - 1748 - 414 pages
...more hardened, and their reformation rendered more difficult, as St. Peter fays, 2d epift. ii. 21. It -were better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment. But after all there... | |
| William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1832 - 552 pages
...speaking even of those who had already made considerable advancement in Christian graces, he says, " it were better for them not to have " known the way of righteousness, than, af" ter they have known it, to turn from the " holy commandment delivered unto... | |
| Moses Stuart - Greek language, Biblical - 1834 - 270 pages
...if he had not been born, etc., Mark 14 : 21 ; XIJH-CTOV !¡v aliolç, /n¡ èntynaxévai y., r. )., it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, etc., 2 Pet. 2 : 21 ; t/ei uytilor vq? vfiuv <rvvunua&ai, debebam a vn/iis commendari, 2 Cor. 12: 11 ; Ijovvaio... | |
| Gerhard Tersteegen - Devotional literature - 1837 - 332 pages
...our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but let themselves be again involved in it, of whom Peter says, "It were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment which was given them," 2 Pet.... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...religion, what peace or prosperity can be anticipated? At No. 7 the prospect is dark and gloomy indeed. It were better for them not to have known the way of truth, than to have forsaken it and gone in the way of the wicked, when they know that the end thereof... | |
| Charles Lawson (M.A.) - 1838 - 412 pages
...his danger. This it is to find the dreadful consummation expressed in those words of the apostle, " It were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."... | |
| Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald - Protestants - 1840 - 164 pages
...us such light ! We have a sure word of prophecy, from which the apostle says to those who deviate, ' It were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them... | |
| Rose and crown lane - 1840 - 152 pages
...religion, what peace or prosperity can be anticipated ? At No. 7, the prospect is dark and gloomy indeed. It were better for them not to have known the way of truth, than to have forsaken it and gone in the way of the wicked, when they know that the end thereof... | |
| Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald - 1840 - 154 pages
...us such light ! We have a sure word of prophecy, from which the apostle says to those who deviate, ' It were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1852 - 496 pages
...warning of St. Peter may well guard us against any implicit reliance upon presumptuous expectations : " It were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."... | |
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