The Deception of False Teachers

By the cross of the Lord Jesus. He says that 'written beforehand' is used instead of 'foreknown' for this judgment. That is, foreknown, just as the things concerning Judas were also written beforehand.

Therefore, he called clouds, therefore, without water, because the one who draws water does not have the word of the Spirit with souls who love God, which becomes to them a spring of water leaping into eternal life. He says this because the righteous again, while making themselves shady with olives and even with fruitful vines, went astray; so he says, as if some are unfruitful and autumnal, that is, both leaf-less and fruit-less.

Having killed the soul by dissolute living and impietytyty, and by wicked doctrines; or thus: because they died by impiety before faith, then having approached the gospel they lived, but again having surrendered themselves to impiety and pleasure, they have died; in this way he says they have died twice.

Even if imitating their leader Satan, who disguises himself as an angel of light, they themselves wish to be disguised as teachers of truth, concerning whom it was said: 'in whom you appear as lights in the world, possessing the word of life'; but rather they are deceiving, perverting the truth with dissoluteness and slanders, and later with error and gloom and darkness, which is the outer darkness, they shall be punished, which is prepared for Satan and his angels.