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These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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Empty Wells & False Promises
Commentators explain that the images of "springs without water" and "mists driven by a storm" paint a vivid picture of false teachers. Like a dry well in a desert, they promise life-giving truth but leave their followers spiritually thirsty and disappointed. They have an outward appearance of wisdom but are inwardly empty and barren, offering nothing of true substance.
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2 Peter
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These are wells without water. Jude 1:12–13 employs several other epithets to describe the same class of people. The language e…
Without water (ανυδρο). As in Mt 12:43; Luke 11:24. Old word for common and disappointing experience of travellers in t…
19th Century
Anglican
These are wells.—Or, springs; this is the same word as in John 4:6. These men are like dried-up watering-places …
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Whatever else may be said about this chapter, it is a powerful piece of writing that gains momentum as it reaches its climax. In vivid words, Peter…
16th Century
Protestant
These are wells, or fountains, without water. He shows by these two metaphors that they had nothing within, though they made a gr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
These are wells without water Which look large and deep, promise much, and have nothing in them; so these men looked…
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The word of truth is the water of life, which refreshes the souls that receive it; but deceivers spread and promote error, and are shown to be empt…
