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What the Fathers say

2 Peter 2:21

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

For this reason the apostle says that, given such a future for those who willingly return to evil, it would have been better for them not to have known the truth than, having known it, to fall into greater evil.

Commentary on 2 Peter ↗

Western Saints

Bonaventure

Blessed Peter says: 'It is better not to know the way of justice than, after knowing it, to turn back.' You will say: 'Many fall.' You ought not to fall with those who fall, but to stand with those who stand.

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 7 ↗