2 Peter 2
EDT2 Peter 2:1-22
‘I entered on this farm,’ Burns wrote to Dr. Moore (2nd Aug. 1787), ‘with a full resolution, “Come, go to, I will be wise!” I read farming books, I calculated crops, I attended markets, and in short, in spite of the devil and the world and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man, but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second from a late harvest, we lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, “like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire”.’
References. II. 22. * Expositor* (6th Series), vol. viii. p. 328. III. * Ibid.* (5th Series), vol. ii. pp. 94, 99. III. 1. * Ibid.* (6th Series), vol. v. p. 459. W. G. Horder, * Christian World Pulpit,* vol. xliii. p. 187. III. 3, 4. R. W. Church, * Village Sermons* (2nd Series), p. 239. A. Ainger, * Sermons Preached in the Temple Church,* p. 210.