Parallel Verses New International Version These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. King James Bible These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. Darby Bible Translation These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever]. World English Bible These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. Young's Literal Translation These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept; 2 Peter 2:17 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThese are wells without water - Persons who, by their profession, should furnish the water of life to souls athirst for salvation; but they have not this water; they are teachers without ability to instruct; they are sowers, and have no seed in their basket. Nothing is more cheering in the deserts of the east than to meet with a well of water; and nothing more distressing, when parched with thirst, than to meet with a well that contains no water. Clouds that are carried with a tempest - In a time of great drought, to see clouds beginning to cover the face of the heavens raises the expectation of rain; but to see these carried off by a sudden tempest is a dreary disappointment. These false teachers were equally as unprofitable as the empty well, or the light, dissipated cloud. To whom the mist of darkness is reserved - That is, an eternal separation from the presence of God, and the glory of his power. They shall be thrust into outer darkness, Matthew 8:12; into the utmost degrees of misery and despair. False and corrupt teachers will be sent into the lowest hell; and be "the most downcast, underfoot vassals of perdition." It is scarcely necessary to notice a various reading here, which, though very different in sound, is nearly the same in sense. Instead of νεφελαι, clouds, which is the common reading, και ὁμιχλαι, and mists, or perhaps more properly thick darkness, from ὁμου, together, and αχλυς, darkness, is the reading in ABC, sixteen others, Erpen's Arabic, later Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, and Vulgate, and several of the fathers. This reading Griesbach has admitted into the text. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge are wells. clouds. mist. 'The blackness, [zophos,] of darkness itself, says Leigh. darkness. Jude 1:6,13 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation... Library The Owner and his Slaves'Denying the Lord that bought them.'--2 Peter ii. 1. The institution of slavery was one of the greatest blots on ancient civilisation. It was twice cursed, cursing both parties, degrading each, turning the slave into a chattel, and the master, in many cases, into a brute. Christianity, as represented in the New Testament, never says a word to condemn it, but Christianity has killed it. 'Make the tree good and its fruit good.' Do not aim at institutions, change the people that live under them and … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John What is to be Said of the Sea of Apamia. A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising The Catholic Epistles. Cross References Hebrews 12:18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; Jude 1:12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm--shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted--twice dead. Jude 1:13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. Jump to Previous Age Black Blackest Blackness Carried Clouds Darkness Dense Driven Driving Eternal Forever Fountains Gloom Kept Mist Mists Nether Night Reserved Springs Storm Tempest Thick Water Waterless WellsJump to Next Age Black Blackest Blackness Carried Clouds Darkness Dense Driven Driving Eternal Forever Fountains Gloom Kept Mist Mists Nether Night Reserved Springs Storm Tempest Thick Water Waterless WellsLinks 2 Peter 2:17 NIV2 Peter 2:17 NLT 2 Peter 2:17 ESV 2 Peter 2:17 NASB 2 Peter 2:17 KJV 2 Peter 2:17 Bible Apps 2 Peter 2:17 Biblia Paralela 2 Peter 2:17 Chinese Bible 2 Peter 2:17 French Bible 2 Peter 2:17 German Bible 2 Peter 2:17 Commentaries THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®. Bible Hub |
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