13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. …
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. …
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)These verses describe another sort of sinners who therefore go unpunished, because they go undiscovered. They rebel against the light , Job 24:13. Some understand it figuratively: they sin against the light of nature, the light of God’s law, and that of their own consciences; they profess to know God, but they rebel against the knowledge they have of him, and will not be guided and governed, comma…
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