 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 sider
...than the beginning." Here is that apostacy, and here is the subject of the temporary faith. " 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 ;" this was a temporary conversion,... | |
 | John Gill - 1735 - 536 sider
...it mufb be worfe for themielves, their defection being the means of a more fevere punifhrnent i Jor it would have been better for them not to have known the -way of rigbteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1775 - 500 sider
...poverty of fpirit, and the holinefs defcribed in the fermon on the mount.] Mat. vi, 33. — 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. 2 Pet. ii. zi. — By faith... | |
 | 1796 - 612 sider
...again entangled therein, and overcome, 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 known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them... | |
 | Sir Adam Gordon - 1795 - 440 sider
...tangled therein, and overcome, the latter end of Juch being worfe 'with them than the beginning ; for it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1802 - 626 sider
...of iniquity^ to that terrible execution, which the divine justice is preparing for them ; and that it would have been better for them, not to have known...way of righteousness, than after having known it, * Heb. ii. 10. f 2 Kings vi. 16. J Psal- cxxv. 1. § Zech. x. 5i || 1 Pet. v. 9. f Isai. xl. 29. ••... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1802 - 644 sider
...of iniquity^ to that terrible execution, which the divine justice is preparing for them ; and that it would have been better for them, not to have known...way of righteousness, than after having known it, *Heb. ii. 10. f 2 Kings vi. 16. J Psnl. cxxv. 1. §Zech.x.5; 1 1 Pet v. 9. 51 Isai. xl. 29. ••... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 sider
...find that their own " judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation slumber, " ver. 3. — that it would have 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 to '' them. ver. 21. In the third... | |
 | 1802 - 374 sider
...entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end_ is worse with them than the beginning. 2 1 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. '22 But it is happened unto... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 sider
...entangled therein, and overcome ; 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 known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto... | |
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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 it had been better for them... 
