2 PETER 2:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;”
But these are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, and in their destruction they will be destroyed — the comparison to irrational animals (alogos zōa) strips them of moral agency by emphasizing instinctual behavior. Born to be caught (gennēta alōsin) suggests that destruction is their natural destiny. The repetition of destruction (phthora) emphasizes inevitability.
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