For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Avec des discours enflés de vanité, ils amorcent par les convoitises de la chair, par les dissolutions, ceux qui viennent à peine d'échapper aux hommes qui vivent dans l'égarement;
KJV
For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)
ervent, quia secundum Petri sententiam: «Pelliciunt in desideriis carnis eos qui paululum effugiunt (II Pet. II, 18) .» Laqueus juvenum omnes isti saeculares sunt, qui suis confabulationibus illiciunt eos ad peccandum, qui calore tentationum aestuant. Nam et «bonos mores corrump…
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