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... The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson - Side 159af John Tillotson - 1748Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| John Newton - 1808 - 624 sider
...and aggravated doom. 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. If. you were forced to run for your lives, you would be very thoughtful about the event. But... | |
| John Newton - 1809 - 312 sider
...to himself. Otherwise, " 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." OMICRONON DREAMING. DEAR. MADAM, I THANK you for your obliging letter, and would be thankful to the... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 sider
...dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. 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. Is not the wrath of God certainly to be revealed agamst all those, who know not God, and obey not the... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 414 sider
...holds up the same warning — " 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 to them." Remarkable are the words of our Saviour to his Apostles, when he sent them forth to preach... | |
| Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 sider
...or remedy ning. Ver. 21. 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. Ver. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The~dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1810 - 272 sider
...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 according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again... | |
| 1810 - 480 sider
...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 has happened unto them according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his own vomit again;... | |
| Theophilus Lindsey - 1810 - 550 sider
...(says an apostle, 2 Pet. ii. 21.) had it been for some not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have .known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them." The great aim and business of the Gospel is, by teaching more worthy and exalted sentiments... | |
| David Savile - 1810 - 440 sider
...than the be" ginning ; for it had been better for them " not to have known the way of righteous" ness, than after they have known it, to " turn from the holy commandment deli" vered unto them ; but it is happened un*' to them according to the true proverb, — " The dog... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 sider
...heard a voice saying, " 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," 2 Pet. ii. 21. This answer cut me to the very quick, and brought me even to the gates of death ; for... | |
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