 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...centuries, are melted down in the last flame, it is a crown of glory which fadeth not away\\\\ ! §. 7. It is indeed true, that such as turn aside to crooked...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. •• 1 Sam. xvii. 40 — \5. -ff Heb.... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...assuredly 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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 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. 22 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... 
