 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...these things in all his epistles, " 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." It is evident that St. Peter, himself an inspired teacher from the Lord, here puts the writings of... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1837 - 364 pages
...that, as Peter says, there are many things in the scriptures which my friend says are so very plain, hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable...also the other scriptures to their own destruction : 2d Peter, ch. iii. v. 16 ; finally, that "as there were FALSE PROPHETS among the people, even so... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1837 - 468 pages
...once, and invent a safe religion of our own. For hear but Peter's words : — " which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." So that if this inference is to be drawn at all, from the danger to the unlearned of wresting doctrines... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1837 - 460 pages
...once, and invent a safe religion of our own. For hear but Peter's words :— " which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." So that if this inference is to be drawn at all, from the danger to the unlearned of wresting doctrines... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1837 - 546 pages
...concerning these things, in which are " some [points] difficult to be understood, which the undisciplined " and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their " own destruction." 2 Pet. iii. 15, 16. I. The Lord Jesus Christ is constantly celebrated, either by the mention of him... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - 1837 - 562 pages
...them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which they who are unlearned or unstable, wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. From these words it is evident, that St. Peter considered the writings of his illustrious fellow-laborer... | |
 | Truth - 1837 - 566 pages
...St. Peter say, that in St. Paul's 'writings there are many things hard to be understood, which some wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.' But I must ask you a question, Mr. Trifling — there may be some comfort in the doctrine of election... | |
 | Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1839 - 1038 pages
...to look what lay beneath it . 1 And some things there are in the divine word, " which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."* A morbid desire to find a type, an allegory, a hidden meaning and an application to some deep mystery... | |
 | Joshua William Brooks - 1840 - 876 pages
...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 ye know these things before, beware, lest ye also, being led away with... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 pages
...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... | |
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As also, in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. 
