...speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which men that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." MS ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE WORD THE MOST ANTIENT. IT is truly surprising that modern writers...

...in the epistles, as generally supposed) are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. Ye, therefore, beloved, seeing that ye knew these things before, litware, lest ye also, being led away...

...his brother apostle, St. Paul, says, " They contain things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Now, from this text, we may conclude that St. Peter considered it very dangerous for any man to attempt,...

...language which would have expressed the idea to their satisfaction. Peter says, " Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. Ye, therefore, brethren, seeing that ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away...

...language which would have expressed the idea to their satisfaction. Peter says, " Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. Ye, therefore, brethren, seeing that ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away...

...Pet. 3. I6. them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Where he plainly speaks, not of the words, but things themselves ; for it is not it d!s, in which epistles,...

...refer to the clear word« of St. Peter, declaring that there are in the Epistles of St. Paul, Some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do all the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction, (2 Peter, iii. 16.), and to the instances which...

...epistles, but extends it to the whole of the Scriptures; — "which they that are unlearned and unstable do wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Perhaps the most cogent objection to a constant and careful study of the Epistles lies in their supposed...

...what St. Peter records, when he saith, that in his beloved brother Paul's epistles, " there are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned...also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Nevertheless, there is nothing in it which at all militates against our doctrine, or lends any support...

...admonished by the Scripture itself, where St. Peter says, that in the Epistles of St. Paul there " are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned...as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own perdition." (2 Peter iii. 17.) Let every reader of the sacred writings, reflect on the words of Isaias...