What does 2 Peter 3:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
Verse 4. _WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING?_] Perhaps the false teachers here referred to were such as believed in the _eternity of the world_: the prophets and the apostles had foretold its destru...
AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? - That is, either, Where is the “fulfillment” of that promise; or, Where are the “indications” or “signs” that he will come? They evidently meant to imp...
III. THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH AND THE CONCLUSION CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Mocking at the Lord's coming (2 Peter 3:1)_ 2. The future of the earth (2 Peter 3:8) 3. EXHORTATION AND CONCLUSION (2 PETER 3:11) 2...
A further characteristic of the false teachers was the denial of the Second Advent (their coming is again spoken of as in the future; _cf._ 2 Peter 2:1 and 2 Peter 3:17). Their scepticism is based, pa...
THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
COMING. See Matthew 24:3. SINCE. from (App-104.) the (day). FELL ASLEEP. App-171. CONTINUE. Greek. _diameno._ See Galatians 1:2; Galatians 1:5....
_Where is the promise of his coming?_ The question indicates the comparatively late date of the Epistle. St James had spoken (probably a. d. 50) of the Judge as standing at the door; St Paul had writt...
ΠΟΥ͂ ἘΣΤῚΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. They ask the question, not as those who long for the fulfilment of the promise, but as disbelieving that it will ever be fulfilled: and therefore they are at liberty to indulge their...
ΛΈΓΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΠΟΎ (G4226) где? "Что стало с...?" Традиционная формула для выражения недоверия (Kelly), ΈΠΑΓΓΕΛΊΑ (G1860) обещание, ΠΑΡΟΥΣΊΑ (G3952) приход ...
WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING?— The _promise_ is here put for the _thing promised._ The meaning of the question was, "Where is the promised advent of Christ? What proof or sign is there of his ap...
2 PETER 3:3-4 KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS MOCKERS SHALL COME WITH MOCKERY, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS, AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? FOR, FROM THE DAY THAT THE FATHE...
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. (Compare ; .) Presumptuous scepticism and law...
VERSE 4. AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? Among other things, you Christians proclaim the coming of the Lord, and they scoffingly ask where is the fulfillment of that promise; for, say...
1 It is the special function of the Circumcision epistles to reaffirm and enforce the ancient prophetc Scriptures and the words of our Lord before His death and ascension. This is notably lacking in P...
3:4 thus (d-21) Or 'as they were.' For this rendering as the practical sense, see 'as he was,' John 4:6 . The force is the present state. as that they have continued....
ANTIDOTE AGAINST DESPISING THE DAY OF THE LORD. EXHORTATION. DOXOLOGY 2 Peter 3 may be subdivided into three parts: (_a_) 2 Peter 3:1. 'This Second Epistle is a reminder of what prophets and apostles...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 JESUS WILL RETURN AND GOD’S JUDGEMENT WILL HAPPEN V1 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. Both let...
WHERE IS THE PROMISE? — Not meaning, of course, “In what passages of Scripture is any such promise to be found?” — but, “What has come of it? where is there any accomplishment of it?” (Comp. Psalms 42...
CHAPTER 26 AS WERE THE DAYS OF NOAH 2 Peter 3:1 IN the previous chapter the Apostle showed how the renegade false teachers had published among the brethren their seductive doctrine declaring that Go...
_Prophets and apostles have warned us that delay will lead to denial of the Second Advent_. “I am now writing my second letter to you. In both I seek to rouse you to honest reflection on the words fo...
LONGSUFFERING DELAY 2 Peter 3:1 Peter does not hesitate to place the commandments of himself and the other Apostles of Jesus on a level with the words _which were spoken before by the holy prophets_...
False teaching which denies the power of Christ issues in false thinking which denies the Coming of Christ. There will be mockers who will walk in lust and make sport of the great hope of the Church,...
MOCKERS WHO WOULD DENY THE LORD'S RETURN The first thing to be considered is the coming of those who would mock the truth. The "last days" are the days of the gospel age, which is the final age of God...
(3) And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation. (3) The reason that these mockers pretend...
"This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: (2) That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophet...
In the second Epistle of Peter (and here I must be brief, because of the hour; and I may be brief because Jude will afford us a further consideration of it) we have the same substantial truth of God's...
4._Where is the promise. _It was a dangerous scoff when they insinuated a doubt as to the last resurrection; for when that is taken away, there is no gospel any longer, the power of Christ is brought...
In the last Chapter, as we have said, it is materialism: trust in the stability of that which can be seen, in contrast with trust in the word of God which teaches us to look for the coming of Jesus, t...
AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING?.... That is, of the coming of the Lord and Saviour, 2 Peter 3:2; the object of their scorn and derision, and whom they name not, through contempt; and t...
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as _they were_ from the beginning of the creation. Ver. 4. _Where is the promise, &c._] The slee...
_Where is the promise of his coming_ To raise the dead, judge mankind, and destroy the earth? We see no sign of any such thing. The promise of Christ's coming we have Matthew 15:27, _The Son of man sh...
THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING; fulfilment of the promise that Christ would come to judgment. ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS THEY WERE; this assertion of the scoffers was false, as the apostle proceeds to show. I...
THE CERTAIN COMING OF CHRIST AND ITS LESSONS. A warning against scoffers:...
This chapter now shows that the government of God will bring everything to a proper conclusion: every evil principle will be judged unsparingly, and those also who embrace such evil; and out of this j...
_ 2 Peter 3:4 ‘and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”'_ ‘AND SAYING' -God gives us one...
1-4 The purified minds of Christians are to be stirred up, that they may be active and lively in the work of holiness. There will be scoffers in the last days, under the gospel, men who make light of...
AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE? Questioning or denying the great truths of the gospel, thereby to encourage themselves in walking after their own lusts. OF HIS COMING; viz. Christ s, mentioned 2 PET...
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‘And saying, “Where is the promise of his coming (parousia - presence)? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” ' Unlike...
It has been supposed by some that the opening words of this third chapter indicate the beginning of a new Epistle. What we have, however, is only the beginning of a new division of the same Epistle. T...
WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? (που εστιν η επαγγελια της παρουσιας αυτου;). This is the only sample of the questions raised by these mockers. Peter had mentioned this subject of the παρουσια i...
2 Peter 3:4 The Promise of His Coming. I. Here we have the language of those moods of the human soul which lead in the end to entire rejection of the second coming of Christ. (1) "Where is the promis...
2 Peter 3:1. _This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up pour pure minds by way of remembrance: that ye may be mindful of the words which. were spoken before by the ho...
CONTENTS: Return of the Lord and the Day of Jehovah. Christ's return to be generally denied. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The general denial that will be made in the last days of the...
Grotius, with his usual tartness, contends that this is the beginning of a new epistle by Simon, but not Simon Peter. But if so, why did Peter leave the words at the end of the second chapter unclosed...
AND SAY. "These people will say: Where is his promised Coming to raise the dead and destroy the earth??? For from the time of the death of the first race of men, all parts of our universe continue jus...
_There shall come in the last days scoffers._ THE CHARACTER OF THE LAST DAYS I. The personal qualifications of the disputers here described. To be a scoffer is sure no very laudable character, being...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:1 The Day of the Lord Will Surely Come. Peter turns his attention to explaining the Lord’s promised return. Apparently he is responding to a disagreement in the church concer...
THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF THE COMING _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE apostle now deals with those who made the delay of the Lord’s coming, and the disappointment consequently felt by many Chris...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 3:1 THIS SECOND EPISTLE, BELOVED, I NOW WRITE UNTO YOU; literally, _this Epistle already a second one I write unto you. _The ἤδη ("already") implies that the interval between th...
Now Peter said this second epistle, Beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the h...
Ecclesiastes 1:9; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ezekiel 12:22; Genesis 19:14; Isaiah 5:18; Isaiah 5:19; Jeremiah 17:15; Jeremiah 5:12; Jeremiah 5:13;...
From the beginning of the creation [α π α ρ χ η ς κ τ ι σ ε ω ς]. Not a common phrase. It occurs only Mark 10:6; Mark 13:19; Revelation 3:14. Fell asleep [ε κ ο ι μ η θ η σ α ν]. A literal and correct...
INEXCUSABLE IGNORANCE 2 Peter 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We like the way this chapter opens. The Apostle says, "This Second Epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure min...
Saying, Where is the promise of his coming — To judgment (They do not even deign to name him.) We see no sign of any such thing. For ever since the fathers — Our first ancestors. Fell asleep, all thin...