...thfc world through the knowledge of the Lord aw! Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again C!itIin'iliid therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known tiie way of righteousness, than, afrer th*y have...

...come,*' Heb. vi. And St. Peter makes the supposition, " that some, who have escaped the pollutions erf the world through the knowledge of the Lord. and Saviour Jesus Christ, may be again entangled therein, and overcome," 2 Pet. ii. 20. And St. Paul witli grief speaks of "...

...who were clean escaped from them that live in error: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and...the latter end is worse with them than the beginning : For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have...

...circumstanced the Apostle may be understood, where he says, " if after they have " escaped the pollutions of the world, " through the knowledge of the Lord...they are again " entangled therein and overcome;" or, as it may be expressed, in immediate reference to our present subject ; if, after having been sanctified...

...of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. They have not only looked back, but stand, as it were, already a pillar of salt to the wise, and a...

...would be an aggravation of his guilt and punishment : " For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known...

...the slaves of corruption. " For," concludes the apostle, " if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Por it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, (the doctrine of Christ,)...

...perish everlastingly. For thus saith the apostle Peter, ' If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (the only possible way of escaping them) they are again entangled therein and overcome ; the latter...

...reference to some of the converts whom he was addressing) — " if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Chris!, they arc again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning...

...way, and are gone astray." And further he says of them ; " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known...