Verse 20.— For if, after they have escaped. By being taught of God, and learning thereby what we must do to become his children, which includes a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ; in short, have put on Christ, become his subjects, and, by the means so graciously pro­vided for us by a loving Father, have escaped from the world and all its pollutions. Now, in case we become entangled again with the allurements of the world, and are thus overcome and apostatized, what of our condition then? This last state is worse for us than the state from which we escaped at our conversion to Christ. Inspiration has said it, and the God of Christianity knows.