Rock's Second Letter, Chapter 2
{2:1} But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among
you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in
destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them,
bringing on themselves swift destruction. {2:2} Many will follow their
immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
{2:3} In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words:
whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction
will not slumber. {2:4} For if God didn't spare angels when they
sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of
darkness, to be reserved to judgment; {2:5} and didn't spare the
ancient world, but preserved Noach with seven others, a preacher of
righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
{2:6} and turning the cities of Sedom and `Amorah into ashes,
condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those
who would live ungodly; {2:7} and delivered righteous Lot, who was
very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked {2:8} (for that
righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul
from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds): {2:9} the Lord
knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the
unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment; {2:10} but
chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and
despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak
evil of dignitaries; {2:11} whereas angels, though greater in might
and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the
Lord. {2:12} But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals
to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they
are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, {2:13}
receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure
to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their
deceit while they feast with you; {2:14} having eyes full of adultery,
and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart
trained in greed; children of cursing; {2:15} forsaking the right way,
they went astray, having followed the way of Bil`am the son of Be'or,
who loved the wages of wrong-doing; {2:16} but he was rebuked for his
own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man's voice and stopped the
madness of the prophet. {2:17} These are wells without water, clouds
driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been
reserved forever. {2:18} For, uttering great swelling words of
emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness,
those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; {2:19}
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of
corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also
brought into bondage.
{2:20} For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah, they
are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become
worse with them than the first. {2:21} For it would be better for them
not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to
turn back from the holy [1>]mitzvah[<1] delivered to them. {2:22} But
it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns
to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had washed to wallowing in
the mire."
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:21} commandment
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