2 PETER 2:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For it had been 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.”
For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them — the tragic reversal means that knowledge becomes culpability. The way of righteousness (hodós dikaiosynēs) known and then abandoned indicts more severely than ignorance. The commandment delivered (entolē paradidomi) carries apostolic authority.
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