For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Ver. 7. For many deceivers] Gr. πλανοι, cheaters, cozeners, (deceivers) such as can cog a a die to deceive the unskilful, Ephesians 4:14, cast a mist to delude even the quick sighted.
Are entered into the world] Where the Church also sojourneth, as the unclean beasts were together with the clean in Noah's ark; or as Esau was in the same womb and afterwards in the same family with Jacob; or as thieves lodge in the same inn with true men, who should therefore be sober and watch. Mundus Medaea est Iasonis, hoc est Satanae sponsa. (Aretius.) The world is the spouse of Satan, and yet the godly must lie as it were in the lap of this Delilah. Let Samson look to his locks.
a The act of cogging or cheating at dice; a particular method or way of doing this. In quot. 1598, taken by some to mean ‘false dice for cogging'; but it is coupled with ‘devices' and ‘shifts'. Obs. ŒD