Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Peter 2:12

12 But these as natural brute beasts , made to be taken and destroyed , speak evil of the things that they understand not , and shall utterly perish in their own corruption .

The false Teachers before-mentioned.

Beasts which are void of Reason, and follow only their sensual Inclination.

Being made for Men's use, and so to be a Prey to them, while they hasten after their Food, they are taken in N[illegible: 2 letters]s and [illegible: 1 letter]nares; and being taken, are destroyed.

Either the great Mysteries of Religion, whereof they are stupidly ignorant; or rather, Dignities before-mentioned, which they (not knowing, or not considering them to be of God, and of so great Use to Men) following the Inclination of their own corrupt Natures, speak against.

Or, shall be corrupted in their own Corruption, i. e. shall be utterly destroyed by their own Fault and Folly; penal Corruption (or Perdition) following upon sinful. The Sum is, That as brute Beasts which have no Reason follow their brutist Appetite, till it lead them into Destruction; and where they sought their Meat, they find their Death, Prov. 7.23. so these false Teachers, not being guided by Reason, much less by the Light of the Spirit, but meerly by sway of their natural Inclinations, in speaking evil of that Ordinance which God hath honoured, shall bring upon themselves that Destruction they have deserved.

Marginal references: Jer. 12.3. Jude 10.