Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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Gill's Exposition
Speaking lies in hypocrisy,.... Or "through the hypocrisy of those that speak lies"; for the apostle is still speaking of the means by which the apostasy should rise, and get ground; and it should be…
Barnes' Notes
Speaking lies in hypocrisy - ἐν ὑποκρισει ψευδολόγων en hupokrisei pseudologōn. Or rather, “by, or through the hypocrisy of those speaking lies. So it is rendered by Whitby, Benson, Macknight, and…
Adam Clarke
Speaking lies in hypocrisy - Persons pretending, not only to Divine inspiration, but also to extraordinary degrees of holiness, self-denial, mortification, etc., in order to accredit the lies and…
We have here a prophecy of the apostasy of the latter times, which he had spoken of as a thing expected and taken for granted among Christians, 2 Th. 2.
I. In the close of the foregoing chapter, we…
Cambridge Bible
speaking lies in hypocrisy Rather, as R.V. through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, that is, the -false prophets," -many of whom," we read, by the time of the writing of 1Jn 4:1, -are gone out…
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