Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Peter 2:20
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2 Peter2:20
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world , through the knowledg of the Lord and Sa[illegible: 1 letter]iour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Those moregross Wickednesses in which most of the World still lieth, 1 Iohn 5.19.
Such a Knowledge of Christ as brings with it an outward Reformation of Life, tho it do not purifie the Heart. For that the Apostle doth not here speak of those that were rooted in Christ by a saving, and Heart-purifying Faith, appears by v. 12. where he calls them unstable Souls.
Return to their old Sins, yield up themselves to them, and continue in them.
Marginal references: Mat. 12.45. Heb. 6.4. & 10.26.
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