Miasma refers to the defiling conditions escaped but later re-entered in 2 Peter 2:20.

The attested use denotes defiling conditions that people escape but can again become entangled in and overcome by.

1. Defiling conditions re-entered after escape · dominant

   In 2 Peter 2:20, the accusative plural form occurs in the statement that people have escaped the world's defilements but are again entangled in them and overcome; the APB renders the clause “they have escaped the defilements of the world” and later “are again entangled in them.”

   2 Peter 2:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Peter 2:20, the APB presents the term within “the defilements of the world” and resumes the same referent with “them”.