When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel. The apostate drops as a wind-fall into the devil's mouth. If you are not settled in religion, you will never grow. He can no more grow in godliness, who is unsettled, than a bone can grow in the body that is out of joint. There is great need to be settled, because there are so many things to unsettle us.
Seducers are abroad, whose work is to draw away people from the principles of religion.
The Greek word there is taken from those that can throw a dice, and cast it for the best advantage. Seducers deceive, 1. By wisdom of words. They have fine elegant phrases, flattering language, whereby they work on the weaker sort. Another sleight is a presence of extraordinary piety, so that people may admire them, and suck in their doctrine.