2 Peter 2:22 BSB — MannaFest

2 Peter 2:22

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

KJV

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

According to the true proverb - This seems to be a reference to Pro 26:11: ככלב שב אל קאו kekeleb shab al keo; as the dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool repeateth his folly. In substance this proverb is found among the rabbins; so Midrash Ruth, in Sohar Chadash, fol. 62: Orphah is returned to her mire, Ruth persevered in spirit; and again, Ibid. fol. 64: “Orphah, which is נפש הבהמית nephesh habbehemith, the bestial soul, is returned to her mire.” The Greeks have something like it; so Arrian, Dissert. Epict. l. iv. c.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The dog, the sow - Such are all men in the sight of God before they receive his grace, and after they have made shipwreck of the faith.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But--You need not wonder at the event; for dogs and swine they were before, and dogs and swine they will continue. They "scarcely" (2Pe 2:18) have escaped from their filthy folly, when they again are entangled in it.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
συμβέβηκεν	sumbebēken	Has happened	G4819 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	to them	G846 →
τὸ	to	the [thing]	G3588 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
ἀληθοῦς	alēthous	true	G227 →
παροιμίας·	paroimias	proverb:	G3942 →
κύων	kuōn	A dog	G2965 →
ἐπιστρέψας	epistrepsas	having returned	G1994 →
ἐπὶ	epi	to	G1909 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἴδιον	idion	[its] own	G2398 →
ἐξέραμα·	exerama	vomit;	G1829 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὗς	hus	A sow	G5300 →
λουσαμένη	lousamenē	having washed	G3068 →
εἰς	eis	to [her]	G1519 →
κυλισμὸν	kulismon	rolling place	G2946 →
βορβόρου.¶	borborou	in [the] mire.	G1004 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
leads to
- Matthew 12:45
  Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So…
- Exodus 8:15
  When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.