2 Peter 2:4

• §392Paragraph 7 · The FallRead at vatican.va

  “Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Pt 2:4.

Hippolytus of Rome

• Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §13On Proverbs

  “Wherefore, in order to teach us this, he uses the examples of Sheol (Hades), and the love of women, and hell (Tartarus), and the earth that is not filled with water.” — editor's note: [The place of torment (2 Pet. ii. 4). Vol. iv. 140.]

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• Hippolytus of Rome, The Refutation of All Heresies X.30Book X

  “And by means of this knowledge you shall escape the approaching threat of the fire of judgment, and the rayless scenery of gloomy Tartarus, where never shines a beam from the irradiating voice of the Word!” — editor's note: Dr. Wordsworth justifies Hippolytus’ use of the pagan word “Tartarus,” by citing the passage (2 Pet. ii. 4), “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but…

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 23

  “Thirdly, it enables me to assure you that the consul-elect, that detractor of his age, is now in Tartarus.” — editor's note: So the author of II. Peter speaks of God “tartartizing the angels that sinned” (ii. 4).

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XI.33Book XI

  “…when he says that “God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved into judgment.”” — editor's note: 2 Peter ii. 4.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XV.23Book XV

  “…said, “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.”” — editor's note: 2 Pet. ii. 4.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XXI.23Book XXI

  “…Scripture, which deceives no man, says that God spared them not, and that they were condemned beforehand by Him, and cast into prisons of darkness in hell, being reserved to the judgment of the last day, when eternal fire shall receive them, in which they shall be tormented world without end.” — editor's note: 2 Pet. ii. 4.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The Enchiridion Chapter 57

  “…the angels that sinned,” as the Apostle Peter writes, “but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment?”” — editor's note: 2 Pet. ii. 4

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 95

  “…“spared not the angels that sinned, but thrust them into prisons of infernal darkness, and gave them up to be reserved for punishment in the judgment,” how is the world otherwise than reproved of this judgment by the Holy Spirit, when it is in the Holy Spirit that the apostle so speaketh?” — editor's note: 2 Pet. ii. 4.

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• 1 John 3:8

  Cited together in Catechism §392.

• Revelation 3:21

  Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.

• Revelation 5:10

  Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.

• Revelation 20:10

  Cited together in The City of God XXI.23.

• Genesis 3:5

  Cited together in Catechism §392 and 1 other place.

• Genesis 6:1

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Genesis 6:2

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Genesis 6:3

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Genesis 6:4

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Psalm 104:4

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Psalm 148:2

  Cited together in The City of God XI.33.

• Baruch 3:26

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Baruch 3:27

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Baruch 3:28

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Malachi 2:7

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• Matthew 4:9

  Cited together in The City of God XI.33.

• Mark 1:2

  Cited together in The City of God XV.23.

• John 8:44

  Cited together in Catechism §392.

• John 10:34

  Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.

• Ephesians 5:8

  Cited together in The City of God XI.33.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:5

  Cited together in The City of God XI.33.

• James 4:6

  Cited together in The City of God XI.33.