 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 σελίδες
...worse 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...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them ;" this was a temporary conversion, as " Ephraim1, like a broken bow, turned back in the day of battle."... | |
 | 1737 - 468 σελίδες
...juftly condemdable than any Heathen that was never brought to fuch a Conviftion. way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy...The dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the fow that was warned 22. And thus the wilful Indulgence of their brutifli Paffions has reduced thefe... | |
 | Francis Fox - 1748 - 598 σελίδες
...than the beginning. 21. For. it had been s better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy...happened unto them according to the true proverb, The u dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and, The fow that tas waíhed, tö her wallowing in the »mire.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1775 - 500 σελίδες
...Seek ye 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...turn from the HOLY COMMANDMENT delivered unto them. 2 Pet. ii. zi. — By faith Noah moved with fear PREPARED AN ARK &c, [ie obeyed] by the which he, &c.... | |
 | 1788 - 598 σελίδες
...than the >eginning. 21 For it had been better "or them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known. it, to turn from the holy...The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and the fow that was warned to her wallowing in the mire. CHAP. III. THIS fecond epiftle, beloved, I now write... | |
 | 1796 - 612 σελίδες
...they are 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...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;... | |
 | 1802 - 374 σελίδες
...are again 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 dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and, The so\y that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire. CHAP. III. OfCbrist's coming to judgment. ~~ HIS... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 σελίδες
...they are 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...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... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 σελίδες
...they are 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...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 σελίδες
...they are 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...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,... | |
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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... 
