Teks -- 2 Peter 2:21 (NET)

2:21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: 2Pe 2:21 - It were better

It were better ( kreitton ēn ).

Apodosis of a condition of second class without an , as is usual with clauses of possibility, propriety, obligation (Mat 26:24; 1Co 5:10; Rom 7:7; Heb 9:26).

Robertson: 2Pe 2:21 - Not to have known

Not to have known ( mē epegnōkenai ).

Perfect active infinitive of epiginōskō (cf. epignōsei , 2Pe 2:20) to know fully.

Robertson: 2Pe 2:21 - The way of righteousness

The way of righteousness ( tēn hodon tēs dikaiosunēs ).

For the phrase see Mat 21:33, also the way of truth (2Pe 2:2), the straight way (2Pe 2:15).

Robertson: 2Pe 2:21 - After knowing it

After knowing it ( epignousin ).

Second aorist active participle of epiginōskō (just used) in the dative plural agreeing with autois (for them).

Robertson: 2Pe 2:21 - To turn back

To turn back ( hupostrepsai ).

First aorist active infinitive of hupostrephō , old and common verb, to turn back, to return.

Robertson: 2Pe 2:21 - From

From ( ek ).

Out of. So in Act 12:25 with hupostrephō . With ablative case. See Rom 7:12 for hagia applied to hē entolē (cf. 1Ti 6:14). 2 Peter strikes a high ethical note (2Pe 1:5.).

Robertson: 2Pe 2:21 - Delivered

Delivered ( paradotheisēs ).

First aorist passive participle feminine ablative singular of paradidōmi .

Wesley: 2Pe 2:21 - The commandment

The whole law of God, once not only delivered to their ears, but written in their hearts.

JFB: 2Pe 2:21 - the way of righteousness

"the way of truth" (2Pe 2:2). Christian doctrine, and "the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour."

JFB: 2Pe 2:21 - turn

Back again; so the Greek.

JFB: 2Pe 2:21 - from the holy commandment

The Gospel which enjoins holiness; in opposition to their corruption. "Holy," not that it makes holy, but because it ought to be kept inviolate [TITTMANN].

JFB: 2Pe 2:21 - delivered

Once for all; admitting no turning back.

Clarke: 2Pe 2:21 - For it had been better for them not to have known

For it had been better for them not to have known - For the reasons assigned above; because they have sinned against more mercy, are capable of more sin, and are liable to greater punishment

Clarke: 2Pe 2:21 - The holy commandment

The holy commandment - The whole religion of Christ is contained in this one commandment, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength; and thy neighbor as thyself."He who obeys this great commandment, and this by the grace of Christ is possible to every man, is saved from sinning either against his God or against his neighbor. Nothing less than this does the religion of Christ require.

Calvin: 2Pe 2:21 - NO PHRASE

21. By saying that having forsaken the commandment delivered unto them, they returned to their own pollutions, he intimates first, how inexcusable they were; and secondly, he reminds us that the doctrine of a holy and virtuous life, though common to all and indiscriminately belonging to all, is yet peculiarly taught to those whom God favors with the light of his gospel. But he declares that they who make themselves slaves again to the pollutions of the world fall away from the gospel. The faithful also do indeed sin; but as they allow not dominion to sin, they do not fall away from the grace of God, nor do they renounce the profession of sound doctrine which they have once embraced. For they are not to be deemed conquered, while they strenuously resist the flesh and its lusts.

Defender: 2Pe 2:21 - known the way of righteousness

Knowledge is necessary, but knowledge alone is insufficient for salvation. One must not only know the basic facts about salvation but must receive Christ as personal Savior in true repentance and faith."

TSK: 2Pe 2:21 - it had // the way // to turn // holy

it had : Mat 11:23, Mat 11:24; Luk 12:47; Joh 9:41, Joh 15:22

the way : Pro 12:28, Pro 16:31; Mat 21:32

to turn : Psa 36:3, Psa 36:4, Psa 125:5; Eze 3:20, Eze 18:24, Eze 23:13; Zep 1:6

holy : Rom 7:12; 1Th 4:2

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Pe 2:21 - It had been better for them not to have known // The way of righteousness // The holy commandment

It had been better for them not to have known their sin had been less if they had not known the truth, but now they sin against knowledge, and therein their apostacy is much worse than their ignorance would have been.

The way of righteousness the way of obtaining righteousness by Christ, and of living godly in Christ, 2Ti 3:12 , prescribed in the gospel; the same which is called the right way, 2Pe 2:15 , and the way of truth, 2Pe 2:2 .

The holy commandment the same in other words. It is called holy, not only as proceeding from God, who is holy, but as teaching nothing but what is holy, and being the means God useth in making men holy, and as being opposed to the pollutions of the world before mentioned.

Gill: 2Pe 2:21 - For it had been better for them // not to have known the way of righteousness // than after they have known it // to turn // from the holy commandment delivered unto them

For it had been better for them,.... Not that ignorance is good, or to be excused; but it would have been a lesser evil, and not so much aggravated:

not to have known the way of righteousness; the same with "the way of truth", 2Pe 2:2, and "the right way", 2Pe 2:15, the Gospel, which points out the way and method of a sinner's justification before God, which is not by the works of the law, but by the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and received by faith; and which teaches men to live soberly, righteously, and godly; and a large, notional, though not an experimental knowledge, these apostates had of the word and doctrine of righteousness, and indeed of the whole of the Christian religion, which may truly go by this name:

than after they have known it; owned, embraced, and professed it:

to turn: the Vulgate Latin version, and some copies, as the Alexandrian and others, add, to that which is behind; to their former lusts, or errors, or worse, which they had turned their backs upon externally:

from the holy commandment delivered unto them; by the commandment is meant the Gospel also, see 2Pe 3:2; called holy, because of its nature and influence, and in opposition to the pollutions of the world; and which is the faith once delivered, Jud 1:3, and which they received, as delivered to them; and, particularly, the ordinances of it, which they once submitted to, kept, and observed, as they were delivered to them, but now relinquished, or corrupted: wherefore, it would have been better for them to have been in their former ignorance, either in Judaism, or in Gentilism, since proportionate to a man's light is his guilt, and so his punishment, see Rom 2:12.