pursue to its termination,” a line of thought or activity. “Pernicious” is aselgeia (ἀσελγεια), “unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence.” The term, therefore, does not refer to the heresies of the false teachers, but to their immoral lives. The latter are the result of the former. “Whom” refers back to the many who followed the false teachers. “The way of truth” is more accurately, “the road of the truth.” The word “way” is to