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2 Pet. 2:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

neither ought their existence to surprise us, for it was foretold that they should come to pass;[3]

2 Pet. 2:1 - NIV, NAB - in Dubious Hippolytus Fragments

And there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies."[32]

2 Pet. 2:1 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV

Before all things, it is befitting that we should know both that He Himself and His ambassadors foretold that there must be numerous sects and heresies,[405]

2 Pet. 2:4 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book X

fire of judgment, and the rayless scenery of gloomy Tartarus,[67]

2 Pet. 2:4 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments

Wherefore, in order to teach us this, he uses the examples of Sheol (Hades), and the love of women, and hell[106]

2 Pet. 2:4 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book II

of truth. But they fear the righteous,[220]

2 Pet. 2:5 - NIV, NAB - in 1 Clement

Let us turn to every age that has passed, and learn that, from generation to generation, the Lord has granted a place of repentance to all such as would be converted unto Him. Noah preached repentance, and as many as listened to him were saved.[35]

2 Pet. 2:5 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

Before the law, Adam spoke prophetically in respect to the woman, and the naming of the creatures; Noah preached repentance;[284]

2 Pet. 2:5 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

Noah also, uncircumcised-yes, and inobservant of the Sabbath-God freed from the deluge.[30]

2 Pet. 2:5 - NIV, NAB - in 1 Clement

every age that has passed, and learn that, from generation to generation, the Lord has granted a place of repentance to all such as would be converted unto Him. Noah preached repentance, and as many as listened to him were saved.[44]

2 Pet. 2:6 - NIV, NAB - in 1 Clement

On account of his hospitality and godliness, Lot was saved out of Sodore when all the country round was punished by means of fire and brimstone, the Lord thus making it manifest that He does not forsake those that hope in Him, but gives up such as depart from Him to punishment and torture.[49]

2 Pet. 2:6 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

of Abraham, proves that it was for the merits of righteousness, without observance of the law, that he was freed from the conflagration of the Sodomites.[36]

2 Pet. 2:9 - NIV, NAB - in 2 Clement

For if we renounce these indulgences and conquer the soul by not fulfilling its wicked desires, we shall be partakers of the mercy of Jesus. Know ye that the day[76]

2 Pet. 2:11 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Of this same thing in the Epistle of Peter: "As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; but having a good conversation among the Gentiles, that while they detract from you as if from evildoers, yet, beholding your good works, they may magnify God."[450]

2 Pet. 2:16 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus

Nor is it difficult for God to open the mouth of a man devoted to Himself, and to inspire constancy and confidence in speech to His confessor; since in the book of Numbers He made even a she-ass to speak against the prophet Balaam.[82]

2 Pet. 2:19 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

4. For as the serpent beguiled Eve, by promising her what he had not himself,[5]

2 Pet. 2:22 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book IX

for a short period, but after a little, wallow once again in the same mire.[12]

2 Pet. 2:22 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book III

The Cyrenaics say that virtue itself is to be praised on this account, because it is productive of pleasure. True, says the filthy dog, or the swine wallowing in the mire.[23]

2 Pet. 2:22 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV

The forbidding of the flesh of swine also has the same intention; for when God commanded them to abstain from this, He willed that this should be especially understood, that they should abstain from sins and impurities. For this animal is filthy and unclean,[233]

2 Pet. 2:22 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV

Therefore He forbade them to use the flesh of the pig for food, that is, not to imitate the life of swine, which are nourished only for death; lest, by devoting themselves to their appetite and pleasures, they should be useless for working righteousness, and should be visited with death. Also that they should not immerse themselves in foul lusts, as the sow, which wallows in the mire;[237]

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