ent glory, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
(18)And this voice we heard coming out of heaven, when we were with him
on the holy mountain. (19)And we hold the prophetic word more
confirmed, to which ye do well to attend, as to a lamp shining in a
dark passage, until the day dawn, and the morning-star arise upon your
hearts. (20)Knowing this in the first place, that all scriptural
prophecy is not from any man's own suggestions. (21)For prophecy in old
time came not by the will of man: but the holy men of God spake under
the impulse of the Holy Ghost.

CHAP. II.

BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false
teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and
deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift
destruction. (2)And many will go out of the way after their fatal
errors; by means of whom the way of truth will be injuriously reviled.
(3)And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you
whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth
not slumber. (4)For if God spared not the angels when they sinned, but
casting them bound in chains of darkness into hell, delivered them to
be kept fast until the judgment; (5)and spared not the old world, but
guarded safely Noah the eighth person, the preacher of righteousness,
when he brought a deluge on the world of the ungodly: (6)and reducing
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, condemned them to final
destruction, making them an example for all who in future should live
ungodly; (7)but righteous Lot, afflicted grievously with the infamously
impure conduct of those lawless men, he plucked out: (8)for by seeing
and hearing, that righteous man whilst sojourning among them, suffered
torment day by day in his righteous soul from their lawless doings;
(9)the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, but to
reserve the wicked unto the day of judgment to be punished:
(10)especially such as walk after the flesh in the eager pursuit of
defilement, and despise government. Daring, self-sufficient, they
tremble not at dignities, railing against them. (11)Whereas the angels,
though so much greater in might and power, bring not a reviling
accusation against them before the Lord. (12)But these men, as the
naturally irrational brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed,
speaking evil of the things of which they are ignorant, will perish by
their own