Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.

Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.