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  2 PETER 2:18
  by John Gill
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Summary: The sermon explores the dangers of false teachers and the
importance of discernment in the Christian faith.

Topics: "Spiritual Vigilance", "False Teachers"
Scripture References: Daniel 11:36, Matthew 7:15, Romans 16:17-18, Galatians 5:7-9, Ephesians 5:6, 1 Timothy 6:20, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, 2 Peter 2:18, 1 John 4:1, Jude 1:16

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John Gill emphasizes the dangers posed by false teachers who use
grandiose and empty rhetoric to mislead believers. He explains that
these individuals boast of their knowledge and flatter others for
personal gain, ultimately leading the faithful astray through their
enticing words and immoral behavior. Gill warns that even those who have
escaped from error can be ensnared by the lusts of the flesh and the
allure of wantonness, highlighting the need for vigilance against such
influences.

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Ver. 18. For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity,....
Marvellous things against the God of gods, great things and blasphemies
against God, his name, his tabernacle, and his saints; see Da 11:36; or
against men, dominions, and dignities, 2Pe 2:10; or it may design their
self-applauses and vain glorying in themselves, and their empty boast of
knowledge and learning; and also express the windiness of their
doctrines, and the bombast style, and high flown strains of rhetoric in
which they were delivered; as likewise the flattering titles they
bestowed on men for the sake of their own worldly interest and
advantage; see Jude 1:16 and hereby

they allure, through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness,
those that were clean escaped from them who live in error: that is, from
those who lived in the error of Heathenism or Judaism, from whom, and
which, they were clean escaped; or truly, really, and entirely
delivered, being fully convinced of the falsity thereof, and of the
truth of the Christian religion; though some copies, as the Alexandrian,
and two of Beza's, and two of Stephens's, read, not

ontwv, "truly", but oligwv, "a little"; and the Vulgate Latin version
renders it, "a very little"; to which agrees the Complutensian edition;
and the Syriac version renders it "in a few words", or "almost"; and
according to the Ethiopic version, "a few persons" are designed; but be
they more or less, and truly, or but a little, and for a little while,
or almost, escaped from their former errors, in which they were brought
up, and lived; yet by the carnal lusts and liberties, lasciviousness and
wantonness, which these false teachers indulged, they were allured,
ensnared, and drawn by them into their wicked principles and practices.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-gill/2-peter-218/
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