These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
ελαυνομεναι
being driven on
τετηρηται
it has been kept
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
προειρημενων
of having been foretold
Demetrius hath good report of all [men,] and of the truth itself: yea, and we [also] bear record; and ye know that our record is true.
μεμαρτυρηται
it had been witnessed of
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
απολιποντας
leaving behind
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
συνευωχουμενοι
treating well together
παραφερομεναι
those being carried away
εκριζωθεντα
being uprooted
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
προειρημενων
of having been foretold
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
ηκολουθει
he was following
αποκτειναι
to condemn to death
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, [being] the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
εμολυνθησαν
they are stained
ηγορασθησαν
they were bought