For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Ver. 20. Again entangled] As a bird in a gin, as a beast in a snare. Saepe familiaritas implicavit, saepe occasio peccandi voluntatem fecit. (Isidor. solil, ii.)
The latter end is worse] They fall ab equis ad asinos, from high hopes of heaven into hell's mouth, where they shall have a deeper damnation, because they disgrace God's housekeeping, as if they did not find what they looked for in religion.