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2 Peter 2:5
and spared not the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the Flood upon the world of the ungodly;
and spared not the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the Flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Verse 5. _SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD_] The apostle's argument is this: If God spared not the rebellious angels, nor the sinful antediluvians, nor the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he will not spare thos...
AND SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD - The world before the flood. The argument here is, that he cut off that wicked race, and thus showed that he would punish the guilty. By that awful act of sweeping away t...
II. THE EVIL TO COME THROUGH FALSE TEACHERS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The source of the evil (2 Peter 2:1)_ 2. The lessons from the past. (2 Peter 2:4) 3. The description of the apostates (2 Peter 2:11)...
As there were false prophets in Israel, so there will arise false teachers among the faithful. (Writing from the assumed standpoint of the apostolic age, he projects their coming into the future; in 2...
FALSE PROPHETS (2 Peter 2:1) _ 2:1 There were times when false prophets arose among the people, even as amongst you too there will be false teachers, men who will insidiously introduce destructive he...
If God did not spare even angels who had sinned, but condemned them to the lowest hell and committed them to the pits of darkness, where they remain kept for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient...
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in verses: 2 Peter 2:5. OLD. ancient. See Matthew 5:21. WORLD. App-129. SAVED. preserved. Same word John 17:12. THE EIGHTH. A Gr
_and spared not the old world_ The _à fortiori_argument is continued, and enters on the series of typical examples of judgments which St Peter had heard from our Lord's lips in Luke 17:26-29. In regar...
5, 6. As in the next chapter, the destructive agencies of water and fire are here placed side by side....
ἈΡΧΑΊΟΥ ΚΌΣΜΟΥ. ὁ τότε κόσμος 2 Peter 3:6. The absence of the article here is noticeable: in the next verse again it is absent (πόλεις Σοδόμων κ.τ.λ.). Sir 16:7 οὐκ ἐξιλάσατο περὶ τῶν�. ὌΓΔΟΟΝ with s...
ΑΡΧΑΊΟΣ (G744) древний. Здесь, _gen._ как дополнение гл. ΦΕΊΔΟΜΑΙ, ΈΦΕΊΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΦΕΊΔΟΜΑΙ (G5339) щадить. ΌΓΔΟΟΣ (G3590) восемь; Ной и еще семь человек, всего восемь (BD, 130)....
DISCOURSE: 2424 GOD THE PUNISHER OF SIN 2 Peter 2:4. If God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and...
SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD,— This is put by a _metonymy_ for the persons who lived before the flood, and perished in it; by way of opposition to the new world, or to mankind restored after that spreadin...
2 PETER 2:5 AND SPARED NOT THE ANCIENT WORLD, BUT PRESERVED NOAH WITH SEVEN OTHERS, A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHEN HE BROUGHT A FLOOD UPON THE WORLD OF THE UNGODLY; _Expanded Translation_ and did...
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; EIGHTH - i:e., Noah and seven others. Contrasted wit...
VERSE 5. BUT SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD, BUT SAVED NOAH. Swift destruction came upon the old world. The flood slew all the wicked, only Noah and his family, who were righteous, being saved therefrom....
The program of prophecy has gradually become clearer with added revelation. The preexile prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah know only...
2:5 eighth, (e-11) That is, 'one of eight.' preacher (f-13) Lit. 'herald,' as 1 Timothy 2:7 ; 2 Timothy 1:11 ....
WARNING AGAINST A THREATENED PLAGUE OF BRUTAL FALSE TEACHERS As of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads the Apostle to speak about the false teachers, who if th...
NOAH THE EIGHTH PERSON] RV 'Noah with seven others': cp. 1 Peter 3:20....
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 FALSE TEACHERS Much of this chapter is similar to the letter of Jude. Some of the words are almost the same. Pe...
(4-8) Three instances of divine vengeance, proving that great wickedness never goes unpunished....
AND SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD. — The fact that the Flood is taken as the second instance of divine vengeance gives us no clue as to the source of the first instance. In the _Book of Enoch_ the Flood fo...
CHAPTER 23 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER 2 Peter 2:1 THIS second chapter contains much more of a direct description of the heretical teaching and practices from which the converts were in danger,...
2 Peter 2:4-10 _a_. _A historical illustration of the Divine judgment on the wicked, and care of the righteous_. “God spared not angels who sinned, but having cast them into Tartarus, gave them over t...
ἀρχαίου κόσμου. The article is omitted, which is not a mark of illiteracy. This chapter is prophetic in form, and the omission of the article is characteristic of that style. _Cf._ Job 3:10; Judges 5:...
DOOM AND DELIVERANCE 2 Peter 2:1 Already the early Church was threatened with destructive heresies introduced by men who desired only their self-aggrandizement. All the Apostles give warning against...
Turning to the subject of the perils threatening the Church, two are referred to - false teachers, and a materialization of mind which follows on such teaching. As in old days there were false prophet...
THE DOOM AWAITING FALSE TEACHERS Angels were created by God to serve him and do his bidding (Hebrews 1:7; Hebrews 1:14). To prove punishment surely waited for the false teachers mentioned in verse 3,...
And spared not the (e) old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a (f) preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (e) Which was before the flood: not that Go...
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring u...
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...
5._The old world. _The import of what he says is, that God, after having drowned the human race, formed again as it were a new world. This is also an argument from the greater to the less; for how can...
The next two Chapter s set before us, on the other hand, the two forms of evil that characterise the last days the false and corrupt teaching of bad men, and the unbelief which denies the return of th...
AND SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD,.... In distinction from the present world, that now is; which was, as it were, formed anew out of that which was destroyed by the deluge. The Vulgate Latin version render...
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth _person_, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; Ver. 5. _Bringing in the flood_] And so burying the...
_And spared not the old_ The antediluvian; _world, but saved Noah_ Interposed amidst the general ruin for the preservation of one good man and his family; _the eighth person, a preacher_, &c. Bishop P...
SAVED NOAH; GENESIS 7:1-24....
But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in this chapter; and the day has come of which he has pr...
_ 2 Peter 2:5 ‘and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah,. preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought. flood upon the world of the ungodly;'_ ‘AND DID NOT SPARE' -The...
1-9 Though the way of error is a hurtful way, many are always ready to walk therein. Let us take care we give no occasion to the enemy to blaspheme the holy name whereby we are called, or to speak ev...
AND SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD: _the world, _ for men in the world, viz. those that lived in it before the flood. BUT SAVED NOAH THE EIGHTH PERSON; viz. together with the other seven, his wife, three so...
1 Clement Let us turn to every age that has passed, and learn that, from generation to generation, the Lord has granted a place of repentance to all such as would be converted unto Him. Noah preached...
2 Peter 2:5 and G2532 not G3756 spare G5339 (G5662) ancient G744 world G2889 but G235 saved G5442 ...
‘And did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,' These next two examples were regularly us...
EXAMPLES OF GOD'S JUDGMENT ON LICENTIOUS BEHAVIOUR AND HIS DELIVERY OF THE RIGHTEOUS (2 PETER 2:4). Peter now calls on a number of examples from the Old Testament which demonstrate the truth of what...
2 Peter 2:5. AND SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD, BUT PRESERVED NOAH, THE EIGHTH PERSON, A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHEN HE BROUGHT A FLOOD UPON THE WORLD OF THE UNGODLY. The second historical instance of...
The second chapter of the Epistle stands entirely by itself. It is of so peculiar a character, that some have doubted whether it belonged originally to this Epistle, or could have been written by the...
THE ANCIENT WORLD (αρχαιου κοσμου). Genitive case after εφεισατο (with ε understood) repeated (the second example, the deluge). This example not in Jude. Absence of the article is common in the pro...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
2 Peter 2:1. _But there were false prophets also among the people,_ How true that is still! Be not startled, brethren, as though some strange thing had happened to us in this generation. It always wa...
CONTENTS: Warnings concerning apostate teachers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Noah, Lot, Balaam. CONCLUSION: Where God sends His true messengers with His Word, the devil always sends some to seduce and...
2 Peter 2:1. _False teachers who bring in damnable heresies._ Sects leading to perdition, and to the extreme of punishment. Who were they? They were yet to come, in part; the roots only began as yet t...
THE ANCIENT WORLD. This means the world before the Flood. God offered to save these people all during the 120 years that Noah was building the ark (1 Peter 3:20). Through Noah he proclaimed this to th...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:5 Second minor premise: IF (A) HE DID NOT SPARE THE ANCIENT WORLD, BUT PRESERVED NOAH... WITH SEVEN OTHERS, then (B) will he not even more certainly judge the false teachers...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:4 Peter turns to a detailed argument proving God’s certain judgment on the false teachers. Four times he uses a lesser-to-greater method of argument (if A is true, how much m...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:1 Evaluation of False Teachers. In this third main section of his letter, Peter criticizes the false teachers, using biblical illustrations to do so....
MISCHIEF-MAKERS AND MISCHIEF-MAKING _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE subject treated in this chapter is the mischievous influence of corrupting doctrine. And false doctrine is constantly treated i...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 2:1 BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE; rather, as in the Revised Version, _but there arose false prophets also among the people. _The transition is simple and na...
False prophets have always been around. Now they don't wear signs, "I'm a false prophet". They come in sheep's clothing. They look like sheep. They come sometimes dripping with love and phrases of lov...
1 Peter 3:19; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 3:6; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1;...
Saved [ε φ υ λ α ξ ε ν]. Rev., preserved. See on 1 Peter 1:4, and compare "the Lord shut him in" (Genesis 7:16). Noah the eighth person. So the A. V., literally. Rev. is more perspicuous however : Noa...
TIMELY WARNINGS 2 Peter 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It has been said that "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." If God had not told us the things which would surely come, to pass, we would not be prepa...
And spared not the old, the antediluvian, world, but he preserved Noah the eighth person — that is, Noah and seven others, a preacher as well as practiser, of righteousness. Bringing a flood on the wo...