Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Peter 2:14

14 Having eyes full of adultery , and that cannot cease from sin , beguiling unstable souls : an heart they have exercised with covetous practices : cursed children .

He mentions the Eyes, both because they let in the Objects of Lust into the Heart, Iob 31.1. Matth. 5.28. and because the Signs of Lust in the Heart appear especially in the Eyes, Gen. 39.7. Prov. 6.25.

Full of an Adulteress, which either may be an Hebraism, the Concrete being put for the Abstract, as drunken for Drunkenness, and thirsty for Thirst, Deut. 29.19. or it may be a proverbial Expression of the wretchedness of such Mens Hearts, when they still carried an Adulteress in their Eyes.

Never satisfied with looking upon, or still looking about for such Objects as might enflame their Lusts; or still seeking with wanton Looks to entice others to Folly.

Either alluring them by their Wantonness to embrace their false Doctrines, promising them Pleasures and carnal Liberties, v. 18. Or enticing them to Lewdness by instilling false Doctrines into them, which tend to Licentiousness.

Those that were not well-grounded in the Faith and Doctrine of Holiness, who might therefore easily be drawn aside.

An Heart wholly intent upon getting Gain, accustomed to it, and skilful in it.

The word is in the Plural Number, to shew, that these Seducers had several Arts and ways of exercising their Covetousness.

Gr. Children of the Curse. It may be taken either actively, for such as were Causes of a Curse, brought a Curse with them; or passively, for such as were worthy of a Curse, or obnoxious to it; as Children of Wrath, Ephes. 2.3.

Marginal references: Gr. an Adulteress.