2 PETER 2:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 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.
Church Fathers on 2 Peter 2:21
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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