2 Peter 2:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; Greek, their destructions, i.e. those ways of error which are attended with destruction (the effect being put for the cause by a metonymy); and the sense is, that as these false teachers shall bring destruction upon themselves by their heresies; so others, running with them into the same errors, shall fall into the same destruction. By reason of whom; or, by whom, viz. these false teachers, or their followers, or both. The way of truth; the gospel, so called, as being the doctrine of saving truth. It is called the way, Acts 9:2, Acts 19:9 22:4; the way of salvation, Acts 16:17; the way of God, Acts 18:26. Shall be evil spoken of; blasphemed, whether by false teachers themselves and their followers, or by others taking occasion by them: see Romans 2:24 1 Timothy 6:1 Titus 2:5.