Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Peter 2:17

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 146, footnote 2 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

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CCEL Footnote 3892 (In-Text, Margin)

23. And there were also others, women, hanged by their hair over that mire that bubbled up: and these were they who adorned themselves for adultery; and the men who mingled with them in the defilement[2 Peter 2:17] of adultery, were hanging by the feet and their heads in that mire. And I said: I did not believe that I should come into this place.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 146, footnote 3 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

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CCEL Footnote 3893 (In-Text, Margin)

24. And I saw the murderers and those who conspired with them, cast into a certain strait place, full of evil snakes, and smitten by those beasts, and thus turning to and fro in that punishment; and worms,[2 Peter 2:17] as it were clouds of darkness, afflicted them. And the souls of the murdered stood and looked upon the punishment of those murderers and said: O God, thy judgment is just.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 390, footnote 7 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 4698 (In-Text, Margin)

... beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.” It was useless to warn them to add works to faith, if they could not sin after baptism. He tells us that “whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.” Which of us is without sin? “God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.” Peter also says: “The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation.” And concerning false teachers:[2 Peter 2:17-18] “These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved. For, uttering proud words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who had just escaped, and have ...

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