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2 Peter 2:6
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
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Verse 6. _THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRHA_] See the notes on Genesis 19, for an account of the sin and punishment of these cities. _MAKING_ THEM _AN ENSAMPLE_] These three words, υποδειγμα παραδειγ...
AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRHA INTO ASHES - Genesis 19:24. This is a third example to demonstrate that God will punish the wicked. Compare the notes at Jude 1:7. The word here rendered “...
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...
TURNING... INTO ASHES. Greek. _tephroo._ Only here. CONDEMNED. App-122. OVERTHROW. Greek. _katastrophe._ See 2 Timothy 2:14. MAKING. having made. ENSAMPLE. Greek. _hupodeigma._ See John 13:15. UN...
_and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes_ The parallelism with Luke 17:26-29 continues and here runs on side by side with Jude (2 Peter 2:7), who omits, however, any reference to the d...
5, 6. As in the next chapter, the destructive agencies of water and fire are here placed side by side....
ΠΌΛΕΙΣ ΣΟΔΌΜΩΝ. The genitive, as in _urbs Romae_, is of apposition. ΤΕΦΡΏΣΑΣ. Examples are quoted from Dion Cassius describing an eruption of Vesuvius, and from Lycophron (who in his so-called play t...
ΣΟΔΌΜΩΝ ΚΑΙ Γομόρρας (G4670; G2532: 1202) Содома и Гоморры; _gen._ аппозиции (BD, 92; Mayor; GGBB, 97; ABD, 6: 99-103). ΤΕΦΡΏΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΤΕΦΡΌΩ (G5077) испепелять, или здесь, возможно, п...
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...
AND TURNING THE CITIES, &C.— Strabo says, that all the ground thereabouts, was τεφρωδη, _reduced to ashes or cinders. Condemned_ is here put for punishment, which commonly follows condemnation, and is...
2 PETER 2:6 AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO ASHES CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, HAVING MADE THEM AN EXAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY; _Expanded Translation_ and he re...
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; WITH - `TO overthrow' (Alford). ENSAMPLE...
VERSE 6. AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. These cities were destroyed for the wickedness of the people who lived therein, God giving thereby an example or a warning to all who should sub...
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...
Neither here nor elsewhere in Holy Scripture is it said that these cities were submerged. Zechariah 2:9 is against such a belief....
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...
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...
AND TURNING.... — The construction still depends upon the “if” in 2 Peter 2:4. (See Note on Jude 1:7.) CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW. — Or, perhaps, _to an overthrow,_ like “condemn to death” in Ma...
(4-8) Three instances of divine vengeance, proving that great wickedness never goes unpunished....
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...
πόλεις Σοδ. καὶ Γομορρ. Not genitive of apposition, but cities of the district, where Sodom and Gomorrah were situated. _cf._ Jude 1:7. Σ. καὶ Γ. καὶ αἱ περὶ αὐτὰς πόλεις καταστροφῇ κατέκρινεν. καταστ...
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,...
"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...
6_The cities of Sodom. _This was so memorable an example of Divine vengeance, that when the Scripture speaks of the universal destruction of the ungodly, it alludes commonly to this as the type. Hence...
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 TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRHA INTO ASHES,.... By raining brimstone and fire upon them from heaven, Genesis 19:24 which soon reduced them to ashes, with Admah and Zeboiim, Deuteronomy 29...
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned _them_ with an overthrow, making _them_ an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; Ver. 6. _And turning the cities_] Bury...
_And turning the cities of Sodom, &c., into ashes_ When the inhabitants of those places were sunk into the lowest degeneracy; _and condemned them with an overthrow_ Punished them with utter destructio...
SODOM AND GOMORRAH; GENESIS 19:16-25....
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 2:6 ‘and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly thereafter;'_ ‘SODOM AND GOMOR...
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...
THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRHA; which being the chief of the five, include Admah and Zeboim, Zoar, the fifth, being spared for Lot's sake, GENESIS 14:18, compared with GENESIS 19:25. CONDEMNED THEM...
1 Clement On account of his hospitality and godliness, Lot was saved out of Sodore when all the country round was punished by means of fire and brimstone, the Lord thus making it manifest that He doe...
2 Peter 2:6 and G2532 turning G5077 cities G4172 Sodom G4670 and G2532 Gomorrah G1116 ashes G5077 (G5660) condemned...
‘And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example to those that who live in and ungodly way,' A third example of God's judgment wer...
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...
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...
2 Peter 2:6. AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO ASHES, CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, HAYING MADE THEM A TYPE OF THOSE THAT SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY. The term used for the ‘overthrow' (=c...
TURNING INTO ASHES (τεφρωσας). First aorist participle of τεφροω, late word from τεφρα, ashes (in Dio Cassius of an eruption of Vesuvius, Philo), here alone in N.T.THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH...
2 Peter 2:6 I. Our text shows that God's severity on sin is an awful fact. St. Peter points (1) to the vengeance He executed on the sinning angels. Every argument which can be applied against the ulti...
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...
SODOM AND GOMORRAH. See Jude 1:7 and note. The presence of only ten righteous men in these cities would have prevented their destruction. The destroying fire was symbolic of eternal punishment....
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:6 Third minor premise: If (A) God condemned SODOM AND GOMORRAH, then (B) how much more certain it is that the same thing will HAPPEN TO THE UNGODLY who reject the gospel....
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 Corinthians 10:11; Amos 4:11; Deuteronomy 29:23; Ezekiel 16:49;...
Turning into ashes [τ ε φ ρ ω σ α ς]. Only here in New Testament. Having made them an example [υ π ο δ ε ι γ μ α τ ε θ ε ι κ ω ς]. Compare 1 Peter 2:21. The word for example is condemned as unclassic...
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...