Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Ver. 3. Scoffers] Those worst kind of sinners, Psalms 1:1; those abjects of the people, Psalms 35:15; those pests (λοιμος), as the Septuagint render them, LXXE Psalms 1:1; those atheists that jeer when they should fear, and put far away the evil day, that make no more matter of God's direful and dreadful menaces than Leviathan doth of a sword; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear, Job 41:29. They make children's play of them, as the word here used importeth, εμπαικται .