2 PETER 2:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.”
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first — the knowledge (epignōsis) that offers escape is the same knowledge Peter elsewhere prescribes for spiritual growth. The return to defilement suggests apostasy more grave than initial ignorance. The last state (eschata) being worse than the first invokes a principle Jesus teaches in Matthew 12:45.
Church Fathers on 2 Peter 2:20
Differently to be admonished are those who lament their transgressions, and yet forsake them not, and those who forsake them, and yet lament them not. For those who lament their transgressions and yet forsake them not are to be admonished to learn to consider anxiously that they cleanse themselves in vain by their weeping, if they wickedly defile themselves in their living, seeing that the end for which they wash themselves in tears is that, when clean, they may return to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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